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· 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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