Legal Opinion
Estate of Phillips v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 1, 2006No. 03-7060, 05-7013PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge HENDERSON.
KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge.
Two District of Columbia (D.C. or District) firefighters who were injured and the families of their two colleagues who died in a May 1999 fire (Firefighters) brought a civil rights action against the District and Donald Edwards, the former Chief of the D.C. Fire Department (Department). Ed wards seeks interlocutory review of the district court’s denial of his motion to dismiss based on qualified immunity. We conclude that the district court erred in denying Edwards • qualified immunity because the…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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- Mitchell v. ForsythSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
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3Cited by54 opinions
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