What is the test for a government official to be found guilty of gross misconduct in a civil case?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Washington v. Gamboa, Case No. 1:17-CV-00302-LJO-EPG (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2019):

rights of which a reasonable person would have known." Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 818-19 (1982). "A Government official's conduct violates clearly established law when, at the time of the challenged conduct, the contours of a right are sufficiently clear that every reasonable official would have understood that what he is doing violates that right." Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 741 (2011) (internal citations and marks omitted). In order for a right to be considered clearly established, "existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate." Id.

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