Camreta v. Greene

Camreta v. Greene
9th Cir. 2009); cert. granted, 562 U.S. 960 (2010).
Subsequent	On remand, 661 F.3d 1201 (9th Cir. 2011).
Holding
In the general case the Court may review a lower court's constitutional ruling at the behest of government officials who have won final judgment on qualified immunity grounds but could not for this case due to details specific to it.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Kagan, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Ginsburg, Alito
Concurrence	Scalia
Concurrence	Sotomayor, joined by Breyer
Dissent	Kennedy, joined by Thomas

Camreta v. Greene, 563 U.S. 692 (2011), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the general case the Court may review a lower court's constitutional ruling at the behest of government officials who have won final judgment on qualified immunity grounds but could not for this case due to details specific to it.^[1]

See also

• Saucier v. Katz
• Ashcroft v. al-Kidd
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 563

References

Further reading

• SSRN 1918991
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• Kirkpatrick, Michael T.; Matz, Joshua (2011). "Avoiding Permanent Limbo: Qualified Immunity and the Elaboration of Constitutional Rights from Saucier to Camreta (and Beyond)". Fordham Law Review. 80 (2): 643.
• Kinports, Kit (2012). "Camreta and Al-Kidd: The Supreme Court, the Fourth Amendment, and Witnesses". Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. 102 (2): 283–328.
  SSRN 1959713
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