Legal Opinion
Hammond v. Kunard
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 11, 1998No. 96-2343PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BAUER, Circuit Judge.
In this case, the defendants, who were employed (at least at the times relevant to this case) by various law enforcement agencies, appeal from the district court’s denial of them motion to dismiss the plaintiffs complaint based on the doctrines of absolute and qualified immunity. Because we find no error with the district court’s decision, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
The relevant facts we have gleaned from the First Amended Complaint (a whopper, weighing in at 19 pages and 45 paragraphs), which we presume to be true for purposes of the motion to dismiss, are as follows.1 At the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Mitchell v. ForsythSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- Malley v. BriggsSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
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3Cited by23 opinions
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- Ross-Tousey v. NearyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2008
- Estate of Crowell Ex Rel. Boen v. Board of County CommissionersSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 2010
- Colston v. BarnhartCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1998
- Steven Manning v. Gary Miller, Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent, and Robert Buchan, Federal Bureau of Investigation AgentCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2004
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