Hamilton v. Cannon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that dicta cannot “clearly establish[] the law”
• re- versing a denial of qualified immunity where “the district court re- lied upon dicta . . . as having clearly established the law, something that dicta cannot do”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).