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Tenth Circuit· 5/17/2010

Lewis v. Tripp

Citations

  • 604 F.3d 1221
  • 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 10002
  • 2010 WL 1949030

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that where the record lacked evi- dence suggesting personal involvement in allegedly unlawful activities in a Section 1983 case was insufficient on summary judgment
  • explaining that on interlocutory appeal “if a district court concludes that a reasonable jury could find certain specified facts in favor of the plaintiff, the Supreme Court has indicated we usually must take them as true”
  • “The record before us lacks any evidence suggesting Dr. Tripp’s involvement in any of these ... unlawful activities.”
  • “If qualified immunity is to mean anything, it must mean that public employees who are just doing their jobs are generally immune from suit.”
  • “If qualified immunity is to mean anything, it must mean that public employees who are just doing their jobs are generally immune from suit.”
  • “The problem with th[e district court’s] discussion is that it doesn’t tell us what [the defendant] did or where, when, or why he took any action that might have violated [the plaintiffs] Fourth Amendment rights.”

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Judges: Briscoe, Chief Judge, Baldock, and Gorsuch, Circuit Judges

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