Good v. Curtis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a fabrication claim adequate which detailed that defendant “repeatedly altered the light settings on the camera with each picture in an effort to make Good’s photograph better match the ‘dark tan’ skin tone of the suspect in the police sketch”
• finding an officer’s “knowing efforts to secure a false identification by fabricating evidence or otherwise unlawfully influencing witnesses is not entitled to qualified immunity”
• explaining our jurisdiction includes “interlocutory appeals from denials of motions for summary judgment” on qualified immunity to the extent the denial turns on issues of law
• “The limitation of our interlocutory appellate jurisdiction to questions of law prohibits our consideration of the correctness of the plaintiff’s version of the facts.” (alterations omitted) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[A] defendant challenging the denial of a motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity must be prepared to concede the best view of the facts to the plaintiff.”
• “[A] defendant challenging the denial of a motion for summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity must be prepared to concede the best view of the facts to the plaintiff.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).