Enslin v. North Carolina

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the qualified immunity determination does not entail an inquiry into the officer’s subjective intentions; merely his knowledge
• “[T]he determination of what conduct underlies the alleged violation—what the officer and claimant did or failed to do—is a determination of fact.”
• “If a genuine issue of fact exists preventing a determination of qualified immunity at summary judgment, the case must proceed to trial.”
• the question is whether a reasonable officer in defendant's position could have believed his actions were lawful
• “[i]f a genuine issue of fact exists as to “what the officer and claimant did or failed to do,” qualified immunity at summary judgment is inappropriate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).