Legal Opinion
Alfano v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 1, 2017No. 16-1914PPublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The doctrine • of qualified immunity shields from liability public officials, including police officers, whose conduct does not violate clearly established federal statutory or constitutional rights. It is a strong, but not impenetrable, shield. After careful consideration of the record in this case, viewed in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, we conclude that qualified immunity is not available: given the state of the preexisting law, the unconstitutionality of a police officer’s actions in taking a person into protective custody, handcuffing that person,…
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