United States Second Circuit

Denial of defendant's motion to dismiss claims in a civil rights case arising from an off-duty officer's drunk driving accident is vacated where individual defendants are entitled to qualified immunity as to plaintiffs' substantive due process claims based on an alleged "state created danger."

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/12/2005
• Published 12/12/2005

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  WALKER, Chief Judge, SACK and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark P. Goodman, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP (Mary Jo White, Howard S. Hogan, Laura E. Neish, of counsel) for Amicus Curiae Patrolmen's Benevolent Association of the City of New York.


• For Appellees:
  
• Eugene B. Nathanson, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Alan Beckoff (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, Stephen J. McGrath, Alan H. Scheiner, Zachary A. Cunha, of counsel), New York, NY, for “Municipal” Defendants-Appellants., Gregory M. Longworth, Worth, Longworth & London, LLP (John W. Burns, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellants Police Officers Jack Conway, Michael Gaudio, Craig Hilderbrand, Edward Sills, Anthony Prinzano, Marie Desario, Paul Alba, John Chavez, Michael McGill, Martin Finkelstein, John Welsh, Michael Immit, and “John Gallo.”, Andrew C. Quinn, Quinn, Ferrante & Mellea, LLP (Bruno V. Gioffre, Jr., Rosa Luna-Molé, of counsel), White Plains, NY, for Defendants-Appellants Dennis Healy and Keith Singer.