Opinion ID: 58814
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Text: “Although the denial of summary judgment generally is not a final appealable order subject to immediate appeal, an interlocutory appeal may be taken where the district court denies the defense of qualified immunity and the appeal involves a question of law.” Andujar, 486 F.3d at 1202 (internal quotation marks omitted). The district court concluded that the appellants were not entitled to qualified immunity because the facts that Hamilton alleged constituted a violation of clearly established law. Accordingly, the denial of qualified immunity to the appellants is immediately appealable. Furthermore, because the same principles govern a district court’s denial at the summary judgment stage of Alabama discretionary-function immunity, Taylor, 221 F.3d at 1260 n.9, we may also exercise jurisdiction over the appeal of the district court’s denial of summary judgment for the battery and false imprisonment claims.