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100			_aLee, Yong S.
245			_aThe judicial theory of a reasonable public servant
260			_c2004
300			_ap.425-37
362			_aJul-Aug
520			_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.
650			_aCivil service - United States
650			_aCivil service
773			_aPublic Administration Review
909			_a61704
999			_c61704 _d61704