Explain the doctrine of qualified immunity ?

 

2. In Sheehan, the officers were found to have qualified immunity. How did the Court explain the reason why this doctrine applied to protect the officers?

 

3. Does the Supreme Court view as determinative of qualified immunity, the question of whether or not the actions of an officer are in keeping with their training, or violate their training?

 

4. The application of qualified immunity turns on whether an officer's actions comply with "clearly established law." What does that mean and what obligation does that impose on an officer?

 

5. In Ramirez v. Guadarrama, Justice Sotomayor dissented from the Court's denial of certiorari and thus its refusal to review a qualified immunity case. Why does she believe that the decision of the intermediate appellate court (which granted the officers qualified immunity) was an incorre