Presley v. City of Benbrook

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that qualified immunity issues are routinely sent to a jury when genuine issues of material fact exist
• “[I]t is well settled that a federal court is obligated to inquire into subject matter jurisdiction sua sponte whenever it may be lacking.”
• “In the wake of Muniz, it has been universally accepted by courts, both federal and state, that a routine booking question exception to the Fifth Amendment exists.”
• “[T]he essence of qualified immunity [is] that an officer may make mistakes that infringe constitutional rights and yet not be held liable where, given . . . uncertain circumstances, it cannot be said that []he knew []he was violating a person’s rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).