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Second Circuit· 5/21/1999

Horne v. Coughlin

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  • 178 F.3d 603
  • 1999 WL 318551

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  • declining to decide whether asserted right exists where there was no reason to believe that the issue “will repeatedly, or over a substantial time, escape judicial review by reason of qualified immunity.”
  • in case involving defense of qualified immunity, constitutional issue may be addressed first when there is a \danger of sustained uncertainty\ as to whether the facts of the case constitute a constitutional deprivation

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Judges: Cardamone, Leval, Walker

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