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· 11/2/1988

Timothy Ryan v. Burlington County, New Jersey Appeal of William H. Fauver, Commissioner of Corrections, and Joseph Call, Deputy Director

Citations

  • 860 F.2d 1199
  • 1988 U.S. App. LEXIS 14667
  • 1988 WL 115047

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that a district court's \order is `final' and immediately reviewable under Mitchell if [the appellants] properly raised a claim of qualified immunity in the District Court.\
  • noting that court will not exercise jurisdiction where \I didn't do it\ defense merely refutes plaintiff's case-in-chief
  • prison officials not entitled to qualified immunity because, under the \reasonable official\ standard, they should have known their actions were unconstitutional based on their general knowledge of the overcrowded prison conditions
  • “‘Although officials need not predic[t] the future course of constitutional law, they are required to relate established law to analogous factual settings.’” (alteration in original) 48 (internal quotation marks omitted

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Judges: Seitz, Sloviter, Hutchinson

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