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Luz Gonzalez v. Lee County Housing Authority, 161 F.3d 1290 (1998)

Citation
Luz Gonzalez v. Lee County Housing Authority, 161 F.3d 1290 (1998)
Parent Document
Luz Gonzalez v. Lee County Housing Authority, 161 F.3d 1290 (1998)
Effective Date
1998-12-02
Original Source
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The purpose of qualified immunity is to protect government officials from liability for conduct they could not reasonably have known was unlawful. Much of federal constitutional law and statutory law is unpredictable and unclear in its application to particular circumstances. Thus, as the Court states, we require materially similar case law or a very specific statute before saying that a government official should have known her conduct was unlawful.3 There is no specific pre-existing case law applicable to this case.