Presbyterian Homes of the Synod v. Division of Tax Appeals

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that precedent isn’t needed when an official can “use his own state of mind as a reference point to assess conformity to the law” (citation and internal quotation marks omitted)
• declining to dismiss where defendants’ entitlement to qualified immunity did not appear “on the face of the complaint”
• affirming the denial of a motion to dismiss on the grounds of qualified immunity
• affirming the denial of a motion to dismiss on the grounds of qualified immunity
• stating that Pierson “found[ed] the qualified-immunity doctrine”
• “[W]hile the Court has regularly insisted on highly particularized law in the Fourth Amendment context, it has not done the same with Eighth Amendment claims.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).