...qualified immunity in this case. The threshhold question is whether the plaintiff alleged violations of "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known".2 See Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 102 S.Ct. at 2739. If the law the congressional defendants are charged...

...officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly...rights of which a reasonable person would have known." In determining that Presidential aides are not as a rule entitled to absolute immunity, the Court distinguished...

...officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly...rights of which a reasonable person would have known.' Id. at 2738. This "|r)eliancc on the objective reasonableness of an official's conduct. as measured...

...defendant-employees against an objective standard of reasonableness. There is no liability if the employee's "conduct does not violate clearly established statutory...rights of which a reasonable person would have known." That is a quotation from Hurlow v. Fitzgeruld, 50 USLW 4815, 4820 (6/24/82). I see no valid reason...

...officials performing discretionary functions are shielded from personal liability for civil damages "insofar as their conduct does not violate 'clearly...rights of which a reasonable person would have known." Several questions will now be addressed. 1. "Have these two decisions inhibited or prevented teachers...

...Commonwealth, 221 Va. 947, 950, 275 SE2d 620, 622 (1981) (accord). from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly...constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known."4* Importantly, the Court in Harlow expressly rejected the civil equivalent of the "premium...

...personal liability. The standard of such liability is whether the conduct of the official "violatefs] clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known." Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 US 800, 818 (1982). The Court today leaves in doubt the reach of its decision....

...officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly...rights of which a reasonable person would have known . "* * [W]e provide no_ license to lawless conduct." 457 US 800 (1982) . Harlow v Fitzgerald, Finally,...

...v. Fitzgerald the standard is the objective reasonableness of the officals conduct. If the officals' conduct does not violate clearly established statutory...rights of which a reasonable person would have known, the offical is shielded from civil damages. Moreover, the proposed amendment does not cure the problem...

...or a court. Qualified immunity will be granted to administrative or investigative functions when the "conduct does not violate clearly established statutory...constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known."7 (Text continued on page 2-15) 5 See FTC Standards of Conduct, 16 CFR § 5.51 regarding FTC...