United States Second Circuit

Defendant-police officers are not personally liable for the arrest of plaintiff, pursuant to New York Penal Law section 240.30(1), where they did not have fair notice of the district court's inevitable declaration of section 240.30(1)'s unconstitutionality.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/21/2004
• Published 12/21/2004

Judges

• Before:  CARDAMONE, MCLAUGHLIN and CABRANES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Christopher Dunn (Arthur Eisenberg, of counsel), New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Elizabeth I. Freedman (Leonard Koerner, Francis F. Caputo, of counsel;  Michael A. Cardozo, on the brief), Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants.