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Appellate Practice

Mar. 17, 2004

9th Circuit Establishes New Qualified-Immunity Standard

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - In its recent decision in Cox v. Roskelley, 2004 DJDAR 2227 (9th Cir. Feb. 20, 2004), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals radically reinterpreted the defense of qualified immunity as it was defined in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800 (1982).

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