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Can I Use Qualified Immunity?
The supreme court has only had, i think, three cases where someoy, somebody, an official's conduct has been held not to get qualified immunity. And one of them was a case called hopevisus peltzer, where prison officials decided to punish people by using what i guess is called the hitching post. So they were out in the sun, and they basily punished them when they, you know, didn't obey some sort of prison rule. They tied them to a post with their a, by chaining them to a post for, you know, hours at a time. The supreme court said, look, we didn't have any precedent saying this as squarely