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I’d imagine they’re not completely immune, eg if you can demonstrate criminal intent the immunity probably doesn’t apply.
by minitoar 6y ago
I’d imagine they’re not completely immune, eg if you can demonstrate criminal intent the immunity probably doesn’t apply.
- appleflaxen 6y agoinsight 10 relevance 0
- minitoar 6y agoThanks for the response. Care to elaborate?
- Dylan16807 6y agoThey're saying that there is nothing even resembling criminal intent in this sort of patent problem, so your statement is true but not related to the problem at hand.
- 0_gravitas 6y agowould have been preferable if they put it in better terms, i feel like the quality of comments on hn have been getting lower and lower and there fewer and fewer calling them out/flagging them when they're there
- NautilusWave 6y agoQualified immunity is a mess; to sue a government worker for something they did on the job, a court would have had to of previously found, in a different case, that said something was unconstitutional, IIRC.
- sebastien_b 6y ago"Qualified immunity" - thank you, that's what I meant to write, not 'sovereign immunity'.