Fonzie O. Martin v. Dallas County, Texas, Bill Long, A. Ramirez, and Don Byrd, Defendants

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• reversing magistrate court’s order preventing discovery against county based on individual defendants’ invocation of qualified immunity
• “The protection of government officials who are entitled to immunity does not ipso facto disable a plaintiff from conducting discovery against all non-immune defendants in his case.”
• “A defendant may not use the fifth amendment to shield herself from the opposition’s inquiries during discovery only to impale her accusers with surprise testimony at trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).