What is the test for determining whether a reasonable official would understand that what they were doing violated a constitutional right?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Woodson v. Sahota, No. 2:11-cv-1589 MCE KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2016):
context of the case," the constitutional right was so clearly established that a reasonable official would understand that what he or she was doing violated that right. See Saucier v. Katz, 533 U.S. 194, 201-02 (2001). If no constitutional right was violated, the inquiry ends and the defendant prevails. Saucier, 533 U.S. at 201.
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