Tara Cartier Donald Coates v. Paul D. Lussier, Individually and in His Official Capacity

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• “A subjective inquiry into an officer’s personal belief is rejected in favor of an objective analysis of what a reasonable officer in defendant’s position would believe.”
• “even where the law and the scope of permissible official conduct are clearly established, the defense of qualified immunity will protect a government official if it was ‘objectively reasonable’ for him to believe his acts were lawful”
• “The [United States] Supreme Court has expressly encouraged the use of summary judgment when qualified immunity is 13 See, e.g., Culverhouse v. Paulson & Co., 813 F.3d 991, 993–94 (11th Cir. 2016
• “[a]fter the affidavit has been corrected in a light most favorable to the plaintiffs ... if there remains an objective basis supporting probable cause, no constitutional violation of [the plaintiffs] Fourth Amendment rights has occurred”

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