The following excerpt is from Lore v. City of Syracuse, 114 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (BNA) 466, 670 F.3d 127, 95 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 44431 (2nd Cir. 2012):
with respect to alleged violations of the Constitution are well established. Qualified immunity protects public officials performing discretionary functions from personal liability in a civil suit for damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known. Harlow, 457 U.S. at 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727. [W]hether an official protected by qualified immunity may be held personally liable for an allegedly unlawful official action generally turns on the objective legal reasonableness' of the action, Harlow, 457 U.S., at 819, 102 S.Ct. 2727, assessed in light of the legal rules that were clearly established at the time it was taken, id. at 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727. Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 639, 107 S.Ct. 3034, 97 L.Ed.2d 523 (1987).
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