Brown v. Halpin

*114In this interlocutory appeal, we are called upon to address claims of First Amendment retaliation and violations of Connecticut state law, and defenses of qualified immunity and state sovereign immunity. We conclude that we lack jurisdiction to consider the qualified immunity defense at this time-when we must accept plaintiff's allegations as true-because it depends on the resolution of factual disputes. Although we conclude that we have jurisdiction to address the merits of the state sovereign immunity defense, we find that the district court committed no error in finding that the defense is…