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Anderson Vs. Creighton

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 25, 1987

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  1. Harlow Vs. Fitzgerald US Supreme Court · Jun 24, 1982
  2. Mitchell Vs. Forsyth US Supreme Court · Jun 19, 1985
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  3. Davis Vs. Scherer US Supreme Court · Jun 28, 1984
  4. Malley Vs. Briggs US Supreme Court · Mar 05, 1986
  5. Butz Vs. Economou US Supreme Court · Jun 29, 1978
  6. Procunier Vs. Navarette US Supreme Court · Feb 22, 1978
  7. Nixon Vs. Fitzgerald US Supreme Court · Jun 24, 1982
  8. United States Vs. Leon US Supreme Court · Jul 05, 1984
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  9. Scheuer Vs. Rhodes US Supreme Court · Apr 17, 1974
  10. U.S. 635 (1987) U.S. Supreme Court Anderson v. Creighton
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  11. U.S. 635 (1987) Anderson v. Creighton
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  12. at the time the action was taken. Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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  13. who were alleged to have violated the Fourth Amendment. Also without merit is respondents' suggestion that Mitchell v. Forsyth
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  14. a Minnesota state court, asserting among other things a claim for money damages under the Fourth Amendment, see Bivens v. Six
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  15. that the Bivens claim was barred by Anderson's qualified immunity from civil damages liability. See Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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  16. could reasonably have been thought consistent with the rights they are alleged to have violated. See, e.g., Malley v. Briggs
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  17. supra, at 457 U. S. 819 . Cf., e.g., Procunier v. Navarette
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  18. in narrow circumstances provided officials with an absolute immunity, see, Page 483 U. S. 643 e.g., Nixon v. Fitzgerald
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  19. conducting such searches were strictly liable at English common law if the fugitive was not present. See, e.g., Entick v. Carrington
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  20. state and federal law enforcement officers were protected by the qualified immunity described in Harlow. Malley v. Briggs
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  21. be resolved at the earliest possible stage of a litigation. Id. at 457 U. S. 818 . See also Mitchell v. Forsyth
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  22. discovery. I The Court of Appeals understood the principle of qualified immunity as implemented in Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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  23. judgment rejecting petitioner Anderson's claim to immunity, the first question to be decided is whether Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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  24. in Harlow. The defendants' claims to immunity at the summary judgment stage in Harlow and in Mitchell v. Forsyth
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  25. alleged that the official had acted with malicious intent to deprive his constitutional rights. See, e.g., Wood v. Strickland
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  26. us into play in the first instance. As every student of federal jurisdiction quickly learns, the Court in Bivens v. Six
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  27. passed on this immunity ruling, we did not consider it. Id. at 403 U. S. 397 -398. On remand, in Bivens v. Six
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  28. articulated a dual standard of reasonableness. As an initial matter, the Court rejected the agents' claim under Barr v. Matteo
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  29. judgment. The Court's decision today represents a departure from the view we expressed two years ago in Mitchell v. Forsyth
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  30. the particular search undertaken by the officer -- the precise situation in which, as the Court recognized in Mitchell v. Forsyth
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  31. such a double standard in applying the exclusionary rule to searches authorized by an invalid warrant, United States v. Leon
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  32. Page 483 U. S. 660 Butz v. Economou
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  33. is itself a form of immunity that frees them to exercise that power without fear of strict liability. See Pierson v. Ray
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  34. Court's new standard that provides the officer with any more guidance than the statement in our opinion in Brinegar v. United
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  35. activity. It is thus quite wrong simply to assume that the considerations that justified the decision in Harlow v. Fitzgerald
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  36. also justify an equally broad rule of immunity for police officers. As we reasoned in Scheuer v. Rhodes
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  37. U. S. 335 (1986), which involved a search pursuant to a warrant, and Mitchell v. Forsyth
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  38. Amendment allows room for police intrusion, without a warrant, on the privacy of even innocent citizens. In Pierson v. Ray
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  39. Ward v. Fidelity
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  40. U. S. 666 As the case comes to us, we must assume that the intrusion violated the Fourth Amendment. See Steagald v. United
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  41. the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.' Silverman v. United
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  42. Payton v. New
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  43. U.S. at 457 U. S. 818 , n. 30 (quoting Butz v. Economou
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  44. U. S. 478 , 438 U. S. 504 (1978)). Accord, Malley v. Briggs
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  45. an awareness of the fundamental constitutional rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution. In Scheuer v. Rhodes
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  46. In Wood v. Strickland
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  47. In O'Connor v. Donaldson
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  48. or reasonably should have known that his action would violate the patient's constitutional rights. And in Procunier v. Navarette
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  49. disregard for the established law that their conduct 'cannot reasonably be characterized as being in good faith.' Wood v. Strickland
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  50. Cf. Gomez v. Toledo
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