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Unwin v. Campbell

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Abrogated
Court
First Circuit
Citation
863 F.2d 124
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
28 of 28
Citing cases (total)
28
Treatment dates
1995
Abrogated
A reviewed court treats this case as abrogated by later authority. Unwin v. Campbell was abrogated on interlocutory appeal jurisdiction: all 28 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below. The Supreme Court held in Johnson v. Jones that an official cannot immediately appeal a denial of qualified immunity on the ground that the evidence is insufficient.
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The First Circuit acknowledged in Stella v. Kelley, 63 F.3d 71, 74 (1st Cir. 1995), that Unwin and its progeny were no longer good law on that point. Unwin's other holdings about the officers' conduct were not addressed.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

28 later cases cite Unwin v. Campbell; 28 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Abrogated

  • The Supreme Court rejected Unwin's rule allowing an immediate qualified immunity appeal over the sufficiency of the evidence.

    Johnson v. Jones · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Unwin v. Campbell, 863 F. 2d 124, 128 (CA1 *309 1988) (saying that appellate jurisdiction does exist); ... This kind of order, we conclude, is not appealable.
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