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Supreme Court· 3/5/1986

Malley v. Briggs

Citations

  • 475 U.S. 335
  • 106 S. Ct. 1092
  • 89 L. Ed. 2d 271
  • 1986 U.S. LEXIS 29
  • 54 U.S.L.W. 4243

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that qualified immunity protects “all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”
  • holding that a police officer who secures an arrest warrant without probable cause cannot assert an absolute immunity defense
  • holding that qualified immunity “provides ample protection to all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law”
  • holding that an officer's act of applying for a warrant per se does not entitle the officer to qualified immunity
  • holding that qualified immunity is appropriate where “officers of reasonable competence could disagree” as to legality of actions
  • holding that the qualified immunity standard “gives ample room for mistaken judgments” by protecting “all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: White, Burger, Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Powell, Rehnquist

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Cites

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