Legal Opinion
Thomas v. Independence Township
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 14, 2006No. 05-2275PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
COWEN, Circuit Judge.
The individual defendants appeal the District Court’s denial of their qualified immunity defense at the dismissal stage. The District Court found that the allegations of plaintiffs’ complaint adequately plead the commission of acts that violate extremely broad, general propositions of law, and, therefore, denied qualified immunity at the dismissal stage. Today, we make clear that a qualified immunity determination must be made in light of the specific factual context of the case, and when a complaint fashioned under the simplified notice pleading standard of the…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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