Can a Circuit Court of Appeals simply elect not to
decide purely legal qualified immunity questions over
which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdiction?

Can a Circuit Court of Appeals invent a jurisdictional limitation to avoid deciding purely legal
qualified immunity questions over which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdiction?

In an interlocutory qualified immunity appeal, can
a Circuit Court of Appeals manufacture a claim that is
not pled in the Complaint and then, solely based on
that manufactured claim, deny qualified immunity for
a legally distinct claim that is in the Complaint?

Can a Circuit Court of Appeals avoid deciding purely legal qualified immunity questions over which it has interlocutory appellate jurisdiction?