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HOPE, LARRY v. PELZER, MARK, ET AL. (27008)

    Order dated: 01/04/02
    Docket number: 01-309
    Action:
        The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted.

HOPE, LARRY v. PELZER, MARK, ET AL. (27008)

    Order dated: 01/29/02
    Docket number: 01-309
    Action:
        The order granting the petition for a writ of certiorari is amended as follows: “The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to the following questions: 1. Whether state officials sued in their individual capacities under 42 U. S. C. §1983 are entitled to qualified immunity unless they have violated statutory or constitutional rights ‘clearly established’ by a case presenting facts ‘materially similar’ to those in the plaintiff’s case. 2. Whether under the circumstances that must be taken as true at the summary judgment stage of this case, tying a prisoner to a ‘hitching post’ violates ‘clearly established’ constitutional rights for purposes of qualified immunity under 42 U. S. C. §1983.”

HOPE, LARRY v. PELZER, MARK, ET AL. (27008)

    Order dated: 04/01/02
    Docket number: 01-309
    Action:
        The motions of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument are granted.

HOPE, LARRY v. PELZER, MARK, ET AL. (27008)

    Order dated: 04/12/02
    Docket number: 01-309
    Action:
        The motion of Missouri, et al. for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument is granted.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

1. Whether state officials sued in their individual capacities under 42 U.S.C. 1983 are entitled to qualified immunity unless they have violated statutory or constitutional rights 'clearly established' by a case presenting facts 'materially similar' to those in the plaintiff's case. 2. Whether under the circumstances that must be taken as true at the summary judgment stage of this case, tying a prisoner to a 'hitching post' violates 'clearly established' constitutional right for purposes of qualified immunity under 42 U.S.C. 1983.

An opinion has been handed down: