McKinney v. City of Middletown

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Tue, 11/01/2022 - 10:20

In a case where the Second Circuit had already held that a jury could find that prison officers violated the plaintiff’s rights, and the majority on a second appeal gives the defendants qualified immunity, see the dissent by Judge Guido Calabresi, concluding that “this ill-founded, court-made doctrine” should be abolished.

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