United States Third Circuit

In a civil rights suit brought by a New York Port Authority officer and his wife against a New Jersey state trooper alleging he violated plaintiff's constitutional rights by shooting him while both of them were responding to a police emergency, a judgment in favor of defendant-trooper on the basis of qualified immunity is affirmed on the ground that no constitutional violation occurred.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/27/2007
• Decided 08/24/2007
• Published 08/24/2007

Judges

• Before:  FISHER, JORDAN and ROTH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David S. Gould [ARGUED], Steven L. Salzman, Richard L. Huffman, David S. Gould, P.C., New York, NY, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeffrey M. Kadish, Esq. [ARGUED], Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn, Livingston, NJ, for Appellees.