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· 10/20/1995

Kiser v. Garrett

Citations

  • 67 F.3d 1166
  • 1995 WL 613276

How courts have described this case

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

  • declining to address issue of whether investigators had an affirmative duty to disclose exculpatory evidence during a child welfare investigation
  • “Qualified immunity is not waived when a defendant fails to take an interlocutory appeal and, instead, subjects himself to discovery and trial.”
  • \It would be anomalous to conclude that a defendant waives a qualified immunity defense by dismissing as moot an interlocutory appeal that the defendant was not required to take in the first place.\
  • “It would be anomalous to conclude that a defendant waives a qualified immunity defense by dismissing as moot an interlocutory appeal that the defendant was not required to take in the first place.”

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Judges: Barksdale, Benavides, Stewart

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