The following excerpt is from Vega v. Semple, 963 F.3d 259 (2nd Cir. 2020):
60 See Jones v. Parmley , 465 F.3d 46, 55 (2d Cir. 2006) (Where "Defendants have assumed, for the purposes of this appeal that as a threshold matter, plaintiffs have shown a deprivation of a constitutional right[,] [w]e need only ... concern ourselves with the second part of the qualified immunity inquiry." (internal quotation marks omitted)).
61 Farmer v. Brennan , 511 U.S. 825, 834, 114 S.Ct. 1970, 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994).
62 Id . at 837, 114 S.Ct. 1970.
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