Legal Opinion
Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Gonzalez v. Reno, Meissner, Holder, Mills, INS Agent
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 25, 2003No. 01-14475PublishedCited by 265 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
In this case, we must decide whether former Attorney General Janet Reno, former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) Doris Meissner, and former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder are entitled to qualified immunity for their alleged involvement in the seizure of Elian Gonzalez (“Elian”) from the home of Lazaro, Angela, and Marisleysis Gonzalez (“the Gonza-lezes”) — Elian’s great-uncle, great-aunt, and cousin — on April 22, 2000. The defendants asserted their qualified immunity defense in a motion to dismiss, which the district court denied.…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- Hunter v. BryantSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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