United States Fourth Circuit

Summary judgment based on qualified immunity for defendants on claims they used excessive force during an arrest is affirmed where the "totality of the circumstances" demonstrates that plaintiff's allegations fail to establish that defendants violated his constitutional rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/15/2005
• Published 11/15/2005

Judges

• Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• George Mason Oliver, Stubbs & Perdue, P.A., New Bern, North Carolina, for Appellant.  Brian Edwin Edes, Crossley, McIntosh, Prior & Collier, Wilmington, North Carolina, for Appellees.