United States Third Circuit

In a civil rights action arising from racial profiling in detentions and arrests, the district court failed to view factual disputes in a light most favorable to plaintiffs, and thus erred in granting summary judgment to park rangers based on qualified immunity and the merits.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/17/2002
• Published 12/23/2002

Judges

• Before SLOVITER, RENDELL, and FUENTES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel Werner (Argued), Patricia C. Kakalec, Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc., New Paltz, NY, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert P. Shane (Argued), Deputy Attorney General, Patrick DeAlmeida, Deputy Attorney General, David Samson, Attorney General of New Jersey, Office of Attorney General of New Jersey, Department of Law & Public Safety, Trenton, NJ, for Appellees.