United States Second Circuit

In a civil rights action alleging a false arrest, a denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is reversed where the district court erred in deciding that it would have been clear to a reasonable officer in defendant's position that making the arrest was unlawful.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/12/2010
• Published 10/12/2010

Judges

• Robert D. Sack

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jonathan M. Bernstein, Edward E. Kopko