West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources v. Payne

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• finding no violation of clearly established law where regulations provide that agency “‘may’” conduct additional inspections “but is not required to do so.”
• state agencies entitled to qualified immunity regarding claims of negligent licensure, monitoring, and enforcement of a day habilitation center because no specific law, statute, or regulation was identified that was violated by the agencies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).