United States Tenth Circuit

In civil rights suit alleging excessive force in using pepper spray, denial of summary judgment on qualified immunity is reversed where the officers' use of force was objectively reasonable in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2007
• Published 09/12/2007

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before TYMKOVICH and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges, and FIGA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• J. Clifford Peterson, Assistant Utah Attorney General (Mark L. Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General with him on the briefs), Utah Attorney General's Office, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants-Appellants., Cory B. Mattson, Cory B. Mattson, L.C., Sandy, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.