Kwan Wah Liu v. Richard M. Phillips, James D. Goldman

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “officers who reasonably relied on superior officers have been held to be entitled to qualified immunity” in cases where a superior gave an order to perform an unlawful action
• “In the few pertinent cases we could find, officers who reasonably relied on superior officers have been held to be entitled to qualified immunity even if the officer who gave the direction acted on a misapprehension as to the law.”
• “In the few pertinent cases we could find, officers who reasonably relied on superior officers have been held to be entitled to qualified immunity even if the officer who gave the direction acted on a misapprehension as to the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).