Camreta v. Greene

Camreta v. Greene, 563 U.S. 692 (2011), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the general case the Court may review a lower court's constitutional ruling at the behest of government officials who have won final judgment on qualified immunity grounds but could not for this case due to details specific to it.[1]

Camreta v. Greene
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 1, 2011 Decided May 26, 2011
Full case name	Bob Camreta v. Sarah Greene, personally and as next friend of S.G., a minor, and K.G., a minor; James Alford, Deputy Sheriff, Deschutes County, Oregon v. Sarah Greene, personally and as next friend of S.G., a minor
Docket no.	09-1454
Citations	563 U.S. 692 (more) 131 S. Ct. 2020; 179 L. Ed. 2d 1118; 2011 U.S. LEXIS 4016
Argument	Oral argument
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Case history
Prior	Greene v. Camreta, No. 6:05-cv-06047 (D. Or. Mar. 23, 2006), affirmed in part, reversed in part, 588 F.3d 1011 (9th Cir. 2009); cert. granted, 562 U.S. 960 (2010).
Subsequent	On remand, 661 F.3d 1201 (9th Cir. 2011).
Holding
In the general case the Court may review a lower court’s constitutional ruling at the behest of government officials who have won final judgment on qualified immunity grounds but could not for this case due to details specific to it.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Kagan, joined by Roberts, Scalia, Ginsburg, Alito
Concurrence	Scalia
Concurrence	Sotomayor, joined by Breyer
Dissent	Kennedy, joined by Thomas