Can a defendant be sued for civil rights violations if they are found to have violated a plaintiff's civil rights?
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The following excerpt is from Hunt v. Martinez, No. 2:18-cv-3025 JAM KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2020):
violations. See Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818 (1982) (defendants cannot be sued when "their conduct does not violate clearly established . . . constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.").
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