Robert E. Kennedy, Jr. Joyce Kennedy v. City of Cleveland, William T. Hanton (85-3819), Frank Wszelaki (85-3827)

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• recognizing that an appeal from a denial of qualified immunity “oblig[es]” the district court to “refrain from proceeding to trial . . . until that issue is decided”
• recognizing that an appeal from a denial of qualified immunity “oblig[es]” the district court to “refrain from proceeding to trial . . . until that issue is decided”
• recognizing that an appeal from a denial of qualified immunity “oblig[es]” the district court to “refrain from proceeding to trial . . . until that issue is decided”
• observing that, following a proper appeal from a denial of qualified immunity, the court is obligated “to refrain from proceeding to trial . . . .”
• recognizing the discretion of “the trial judge who is charged with the responsibility . . . [of] managing his docket and [e]nsuring an expeditious processing of the litigation”
• finding that the defendant did not waive qualified immunity by failing to assert it in his pre-answer motion to dismiss that was granted and then asserting it for the first time on remand

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).