Can a federal government official be held liable for civil damages in a civil case brought by a plaintiff who was not aware of the impact of the actions of a federal civil servant on her client's civil rights?
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The following excerpt is from Barrow v. Warden Cal. Med. Facility, CASE No. 1:10-cv-00154-LJO-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2013):
Government officials enjoy qualified immunity from civil damages unless their conduct violates "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known." Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818 (1982).
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