The following excerpt is from Sharp v. Cnty. of Orange, 871 F.3d 901 (9th Cir. 2017):
subject of the warrant, that particular detention was not clearly proscribed by established law. Except when there is an "obvious" instance of constitutional misconduct, Plaintiffs must "identify a case where an officer acting under similar circumstances as [defendants] was held to have violated the Fourth Amendment." White v. Pauly , U.S. , 137 S.Ct. 548, 552, 196 L.Ed.2d 463 (2017) (per curiam) (emphasis added). Simply put, there is no such controlling case here that would alert these officers to the proper scope of Summers .
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