Hershel Rosenbaum v. Washoe County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the question in determining whether qualified immunity applies is whether all reasonable officers would agree that [the officer’s behavior violated the plaintiff’s rights] in this instance”
• explaining that the question is “whether reasonable officers could disagree as to the legality of the arrest such that the arresting officer is entitled to qualified immunity”
• finding that the right to familial association was not violated when the plaintiffs children were taken from him because they were not separated for an extended period of time
• applying the “shocks the conscience” analysis to the “well established” “right to family 19 integrity or to familial association”
• asking “whether all reasonable officers would agree that 21 there was no probable cause in this instance”
• explaining two-part test for qualified immunity in the context of a claim for unlawful arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).