U.S. Supreme Court Holds Prison Officials Are Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity After Housing Inmate in Unconstitutional Conditions and were Deliberately Indifferent to the Inmate’s Health and Safety | CSH Law
By EsqSocial Corporation 19/01/21
In a recent opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granting correctional officers qualified immunity on the basis that the doctrine shields an officer from suit when he or she makes a decision that, “even if constitutionally deficient, reasonably misapprehends the law governing the circumstances she confronted.” The 7-1 majority (Justice Amy Coney Barret did not participate in the case or ruling) found that no reasonable correctional officer...
By: Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP