01350pab a2200145 454500008004000000100001700040245005500057260000900112300001300121362001200134520097300146650003401119650001801153773003301171180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aLee, Yong S.  aThe judicial theory of a reasonable public servant  c2004  ap.425-37  aJul-Aug  aContemporary theory of the constitutionally reasonable public servant, established by the US Supreme Court in 1982 in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, is measured in reference to clearly established constitutional or statutory rights that a reasonable person would have known. In this article, the author seeks to elucidate the evolving contours of the objective reasonableness standard and examines how federal courts have applied it to gain a firsthand impression of how public officials challenged in federal courts are measuring up to the objective reasonableness standard, the author provides a snapshort of 449 recent court cases selected from two federal circuits, the Eighth and the District of Columbia circuits. He concludes that public officials in these two circuits have fared very well under the standard of objective reasonableness. the flip side is that aggrieved individual citizens must carry a heavy burden to protect their constitutional rights. - Reproduced.  aCivil service - United States  aCivil service  aPublic Administration Review