· 4/19/1940
Montgomery v. Johnston
Citations
- 111 F.2d 327
- 1940 U.S. App. LEXIS 3637
How courts have described this case
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- declining to decide whether asserted right exists where there was no reason to believe that the issue “will repeatedly, or over a substantial time, escape judicial review by reason of qualified immunity.”
- in case involving defense of qualified immunity, constitutional issue may be addressed first when there is a \danger of sustained uncertainty\ as to whether the facts of the case constitute a constitutional deprivation
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Judges: Healy
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