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BRACKEN v. OKURA

No. 14-16886.

869 F.3d 771 (2017)

Dillon L. BRACKEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Aaron H. OKURA; Kyo-Ya Hotels and Resorts, L.P., Defendants, and Kinchung Chung, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 23, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles S. Lotsof (argued), Honolulu, Hawaii, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sarah T. Casken (argued) and Curtis E. Sherwood , Deputies Corporation Counsel; Donna Y.L. Leong , Corporation Counsel; Department of the Corporation Counsel, Honolulu, Hawaii; for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: Raymond C. Fisher, Richard A. Paez and Jacqueline H. Nguyen, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

Qualified immunity protects government officers in the performance of their public, governmental functions. It does so "not to benefit [the] agents" of government, but "to safeguard government" itself, "and thereby to protect the public at large." Wyatt v. Cole, 504 U.S. 158

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