Sydney Rieman v. Gloria Vasquez

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How courts have described this case

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• no qualified immunity where social workers were mandated under the law to provide 5 notice of a hearing and failed to provide such notice
• “reasonableness is judged against the backdrop of the law at the time of the conduct” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “The salient question is whether the state of the law at the time of their misconduct gave the [the defendants] fair warning that their misconduct was unconstitutional.” (alterations, citation, and internal quotation marks omitted)

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