Jean v. Collins, No. 95-7694 (4th Cir.) (155 F.3d 701) (September 17, 1998) (Judge J. Harvie III Wilkinson)
Loaded on Oct. 1, 1998
published in Punch and Jurists
October 26, 1998
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Immunity - Absolute and Qualified.
This case set off a seething and often ungracious donnybrook; and it is noted not just for its important and detailed (albeit dramatically conflicting) discussions of the current state of the law of immunity in civil rights suits for damages, but also for the majority's conspicuously strained efforts to achieve ...
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