Tellier v. Fields

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a law is “clearly established” so long as a ruling on the issue is “clearly foreshadow[ed]” by this Circuit’s decisions
• recognizing a Bivens remedy for 17 a claim of deprivation of procedural due process brought by a federal prisoner 18 against federal prison officials
• applying Sandin to a claim that a prison regulation governing disciplinary confinement violated an inmate’s Fourteenth Amendment rights
• “Because qualified immunity is an affirmative defense,... the defendants bear the burden of showing that the challenged act was objectively reasonable in light of the law existing at the time.”
• such clarity may be established by decisions 6 of the Supreme Court or of the appropriate circuit
• “As a general rule, a district court’s order denying a party’s motion for summary judgment is an interlocutory order, and, as such, is not immediately appealable.”

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