Legal Opinion
Michael J. Daugherty & Labmd, Inc. v. Sheer
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 1, 2018No. 17-5128PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wilkins, Circuit Judge:
*388 This case requires us to decide whether two Federal Trade Commission attorneys are immune from suit for their conduct during an enforcement action against a medical-records company after the company's CEO publicly criticized the FTC about their investigation, where the company's data-security practices made patient records available over public file-sharing. Because "qualified immunity protects all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law," Mullenix v. Luna , --- U.S. ----, 136 S.Ct. 305 , 308, 193 L.Ed.2d 255 (2015) (internal quotation marks…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Mullenix v. LunaSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
- Reichle v. HowardsSupreme Court of the United States · 2012
- Crawford-El v. BrittonSupreme Court of the United States · 1998
- Hartman v. MooreSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
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