Qualified Immunity In your Unit 4 study, you read briefly about qualified immunity. Your textbook described this legal doctrine as an “exemption of a public official from civil liability for actions performed during the course of his or her job unless they violated a ‘clearly established’ constitutional or statutory right of which a reasonable person would have known” (Harr, Hess, Orthmann, & Kingsbury, 2014, p. 282).

Qualified Immunity In your Unit 4 study, you read briefly about qualified immunity. Your textbook described this legal doctrine as an “exemption of a public official from civil liability for actions performed during the course of his or her job unless they violated a ‘clearly established’ constitutional or statutory right of which a reasonable person would have known” (Harr, Hess, Orthmann, & Kingsbury, 2014, p. 282). Referencing the Ross article in your required reading this week and the Messerschmidt v. Millender case, what is the current status of qualified immunity? What new didMesserschmidt offer? Be sure to include the concept of constitutional “reasonableness” in your response—something we explored earlier in the course that appears to inform the Messerschmidt case.

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