State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Capital Sewer, Inc.

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• holding that the denial of a claim of qualified immunity is an appealable final decision
• observing that the “question of immunity is separate from the merits of the underlying action for purposes of [an interlocutory appeal under the collateral order doctrine] even though a reviewing court must consider the plaintiffs factual allegations in resolving the immunity issue”
• \the essence of absolute immunity is its possessor's entitlement not to 10 have to answer for his conduct in a civil damages action.\
• in Harlow, “this Court purged qualified immunity doctrine of its subjective components”
• absolute immunity “is an immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability”
• “[Qualified immunity] is an immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability; and like an absolute immunity, it is effectively lost if a case is erroneously permitted to go to trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).