The following excerpt is from Ventura v. Rutledge, 398 F.Supp.3d 682 (E.D. Cal. 2019):
3 "Qualified immunity is an affirmative defense that the government has the burden of pleading and proving." Frudden v. Pilling , 877 F.3d 821, 831 (9th Cir. 2017) (citing Houghton v. South , 965 F.2d 1532, 1536 (9th Cir. 1992) ).
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