Is a government official entitled to qualified immunity from liability for civil damages for gross negligence?
The following excerpt is from Mansourian v. Bd. of Regents of the Univ. of California at Davis, 277 Ed. Law Rep. 735, 816 F.Supp.2d 869 (E.D. Cal. 2011):
Government officials who perform discretionary functions generally are entitled to qualified immunity from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known. Flores, 324 F.3d at 1134 (quoting Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982)).57 Qualified
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