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Messerschmidt v. Millender, No. 10-704 (U.S. Supreme Court) (565 U.S. 535; 132 S.Ct. 1235) (February 22, 2012) (Justice (John G.) Roberts)

Loaded on March 5, 2012 published in Punch and Jurists March 05, 2012
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Immunity - Absolute and Qualified.

Here a divided Court held that two police officers may have erred in executing a search warrant that lacked probable cause, but they were not “plainly incompetent” so as to be denied qualified immunity in a civil rights lawsuit for damages.

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