United States Tenth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants, police officers and a municipality, on claims brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state law arising from an elaborate prank that included actual handcuffing and apparent arrest of plaintiff is reversed in part as to a grant of qualified immunity and summary judgment on several state claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/01/2006
• Published 03/01/2006

Judges

• LUCERO, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, Circuit Judge, BRORBY, Senior Circuit Judge, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas P. Gulley, Jontz Dawe Gulley & Crown, P.C., Albuquerque, NM, for the Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey L. Baker (L. Helen Bennett, The Baker Law Firm, Albuquerque, NM;  and Duane C. Gilkey and George C. Kraehe, Gilkey & Stephenson, P.A. with him on the briefs), The Baker Law Firm, Albuquerque, NM, for the Defendant-Appellees.