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PENATE v. HANCHETT

No. 19-1187.

944 F.3d 358 (2019)

Rolando PENATE, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. James HANCHETT, Defendant, Appellant, Anne Kaczmarek; Kris Foster; Randall E. Ravitz; Joseph Ballou; Robert Irwin; Randy Thomas; Sonja Farak; Sharon Salem; Julie Nassif; Linda Han; Estate of Kevin Burnham; Steven Kent; John Wadlegger; Gregg Bigda; Edward Kalish; and City of Springfield, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

December 13, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua D. Jacobson , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Maura Healey , Attorney General of Massachusetts, and Adam Hornstine , Assistant Attorney General, were on brief, for appellant.

Luke Ryan , with whom Sasson, Turnbull, Ryan & Hoose, Northampton, MA, was on brief, for appellee.

Before Lynch, Selya, and Barron, Circuit Judges.

This appeal raises issues under the clearly established law prong of the qualified immunity test for supervisory state officials. A magistrate judge concluded that a state drug lab supervisor, defendant-appellant James Hanchett, is not entitled to qualified immunity from a claim brought by plaintiff-appellee Rolando Penate...

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