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Tucker v. Resha

Citations

  • 648 So. 2d 1187
  • 1994 WL 620788

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “an order denying summary judgment based upon a claim of qualified immunity is subject to interlocutory review to the extent that the order turns on an issue of law”
  • explaining that entitlement to immunity from suit “is effectively lost if a case is erroneously permitted to go to trial” because the party entitled to such immunity “cannot be ‘re-immunized’ if erroneously required to stand trial or face the other burdens of litigation”
  • “[T]he qualified immunity of public officials involves ‘immunity from suit rather than a mere defense to liability.’ ”
  • “[A]n order denying qualified immunity is ‘effectively unreviewable on appeal from a final judgment,’ as the public official cannot be ‘re-immunized’ if erroneously required to stand trial or face the other burdens of litigation.”

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Judges: Harding

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61 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named Tucker v. Resha

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