Is Defendant Lewis entitled to qualified immunity in a civil action for wrongful dismissal?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Hanlon v. Lewis, 92 F.3d 1192 (9th Cir. 1996):
Defendant Lewis is entitled to qualified immunity in a suit for civil damages insofar as his conduct did not "violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known." Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818 (1982). To be clearly established, "[t]he contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right." Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 640 (1987).
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