Matter of Kelsey v. Dean Transp.

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).