United States Tenth Circuit

In action alleging excessive force by police officer, in determining officer's entitlement to qualified immunity and indemnification under Oklahoma's Government Tort Claims Act (GTCA), the district court's failure to make the factual determinations that the GTCA requires, regarding good faith and scope of employment, resulted in the reversal and remand of the court's denial of indemnification application.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/16/2002
• Published 04/16/2002

Judges

• TACHA, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, ANDERSON, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs: 


• For Appellees:
  
• Carol Seacat of Seacat & Seacat, Okmulgee, OK, for Appellant/Cross-Appellee and Appellee/Cross-Appellant Robert Lampkin., L. Susan Work and Kevin Dellinger, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Okmulgee, OK, for Appellee/Cross-Appellant and Appellant/Cross-Appellee Jim Little., Chris J. Collins and Michael L. Carr of Collins, Zorn, Wagner & Gibbs, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Appellee Okmulgee County Board of Commissioners.