Legal Opinion
Siegert v. Gilley
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 23, 1991No. 90-96PublishedCited by 2,609 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit properly directed dismissal of petitioner’s Bivens claim on the grounds that he had not overcome respondent’s claim of qualified immunity. The Court of Appeals relied on its “heightened pleading standard,” but we hold that petitioner’s claim failed at an analytically earlier stage of the inquiry into qualified immunity: His allegations, even if accepted as true, did not state a claim for violation of any rights secured to him under the United States Constitution.
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