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No Jurisdiction for Appeal When Qualified Immunity Not Denied
Loaded on July 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2002, page 24
by Matthew T. Clarke
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Summary Judgment,
Appeals,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Arkansas.
The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has ruled that it has no jurisdiction to hear an interlocutory appeal of a partial denial of a motion for summary judgment when the district court did not actually rule on defendants' qualified immunity defense.
Ben Krein, an ...
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