Sean Moore, a Disabled Person, by His Guardian Darlene Moore v. Terry Briggs

LOKEN, Chief Judge.

Sixteen employees of the St. Charles Habilitation Center (“the Center”) appeal a district court order denying them qualified immunity from Sean Moore’s § 1983 claim that they violated his constitutional right to substantive due process by failing to protect him from assault by another resident. Qualified immunity shields government officials from liability for civil damages for discretionary acts that do not “violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727,…