ELDER

v.

HOLLOWAY ET AL.

Citator

Cited By

• Elder v. Holloway, 510 U.S. 510 (U.S. 1994)
  …est for judgment based on qualified immunity is to identify the universe of statutory or decisional law from which the [district] court can determine whether the right allegedly violated was clearly established.” Id., at 1392. We granted certiorari, 509 U. S. 921 (1993). Ill The central purpose of affording public officials qualified immunity from suit is to protect them “from undue interference with their duties and from potentially disabling threats of liability.” Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U. S., at 806.…
• McDERMOTT, Inc. v. AmCLYDE, 511 U.S. 202 (U.S. 1994)
  …how a settlement with less than all of the defendants in an admiralty ease should affect the liability of nonsettling defendants, and because the Courts of Appeals have adopted different approaches to this important question, we granted certiorari. 509 U. S. 921 (1993). II Although Congress has enacted significant legislation in the field of admiralty law,7 none of those statutes provides us with any “policy guidance” or imposes any limit on our authority to fashion the rule that will best answer the ques…