Illinois, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, et al.
Amici Curiae
Gary Feinerman, Counsel of Record Illinois, Alabama, Alaska, and Arizona are joined in this brief by 24 other States and Puerto Rico. Gary Feinerman has served as solicitor general for the State of Illinois since May 2003. He received his law degree from Stanford University in 1991. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on December 13, 2006. The qualified immunity doctrine protects governmentofficials “from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does notviolate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which areasonable person would have known….
