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Qualified Immunity For “Private” § 1983 Defendants After Filarsky V. Delia, Andrew W. Weis
Qualified Immunity For “Private” § 1983 Defendants After Filarsky V. Delia, Andrew W. Weis
Georgia State University Law Review
In 2012, the Supreme Court addressed private party qualified immunity in the case of Filarsky v. Delia. There, the Court found that both the historical and policy bases for immunity under § 1983 supported extending qualified immunity to outside counsel retained by a municipality. The Court noted that full-time government employees can always seek qualified immunity, so not extending it to individuals employed on some other basis would create “significant line-drawing problems . . . [which could] deprive state actors of the ability to ‘reasonably anticipate when their conduct may give rise to liability . . . .’”
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Challenging Unjust Convictions Under Section 1983, Leon Friedman
Challenging Unjust Convictions Under Section 1983, Leon Friedman
Touro Law Review
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