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Pearson v. Callahan, No. 07-751 (U.S. Supreme Court) (555 U.S. 223; 129 S.Ct. 808) (January 21, 2009) (Justice Alito)

Here a uninamous Court shifted the standard for determining whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for 4th Amendment violations by reversing precedent and discarding the rigid two-step process it had developed in Saucier v. Katz.

In this case, the Supreme Court revised the procedures for determining whether police ...

 

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