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Legal doctrine in United States federal law
In the United States, qualified immunity is a legal principle of federal constitutional law that grants government officials performing discretionary functions immunity from lawsuits for damages unless the plaintiff shows that the official violated "clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known". It is comparable to sovereign immunity, though ... Wikipedia