United States Second Circuit

In a civil rights action alleging excessive force, judgment in favor of defendant-police officer is vacated where the erroneous admission of certain expert testimony requires that a new trial be ordered.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2005
• Published 06/27/2005

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges, and JED S. RAKOFF, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael Steven Kelton, Lippman, Krasnow & Kelton, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Karen M. Griffin, for Michael Cardozo, Corporation Counsel for the City of New York, New York, N.Y. (Jennifer A. Rossan, John S. Siffert, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.