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CORNEJO v. BELL

Docket Nos. 08-3069-cv (Lead), 08-3071-cv (Con).

592 F.3d 121 (2010)

Sally CORNEJO, individually and on behalf of her infant child Kevin Salas, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William BELL, individually and as Commissioner, Kathleen Cerrito, individually and as caseworker, Janice Hoggs, individually and as supervisor, Joyce De Nicholson, individually and as manager, Eugene Weixel, individually and as caseworker, Ramon Vargas, individually and as supervisor, Maureen Fleming, individually and as deputy director and City of New York, Fredda Monn, individually and as supervising attorney, Jodi Kaplan, individually and as supervising attorney, Dawn Schwartz, individually and as attorney Susan Schenkel Savitt, and The City of New York, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 4, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carolyn A. Kubitschek, Lansner & Kubitschek, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Janet L. Zaleon, Of Counsel, City of New York Law Department, New York, N.Y. (Michael A. Cardozo, Kristin M. Helmers, Jonathan L. Pines, City of New York Law Department, New York, NY, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MINER and CABRANES, Circuit Judges, and RAKOFF, District Judge.

RAKOFF, District Judge.

For centuries, Anglo-American law has protected public officials against claims for damages arising from actions taken in the course of duty. Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 806, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982). "As recognized at common law, public officers require this protection to shield them from undue interference with their duties and from potentially disabling threats of liability."

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