Sanchez-Torres v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that qualified immunity was appropriate when a “case-by-case examination of the totality of circumstances” was required
• holding that case was not sufficiently on point to constitute clearly established law where it addressed a different prong of the Eighth Amendment analysis
• holding that prior case law “is considered on point if it involves materially similar conduct or applies with obvious clarity to the conduct at issue” (quotations omitted)
• stating that “our sliding-scale approach may arguably conflict with recent Supreme Court precedent on qualified immunity”
• stating that \our sliding-scale approach may arguably conflict with recent Supreme Court precedent on qualified immunity\
• explaining that “clearly established” precedent “is considered on point if it involves materially similar conduct or applies with obvious clarity to the conduct at issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).