United States Third Circuit

In a due process and equal protection suit against police officers resulting from the shooting of a woman by her police-officer husband, summary judgment that the officers were not entitled to qualified immunity is reversed where the defendants did not have a constitutional obligation to protect plaintiff from her husband's abuse.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/02/2006
• Decided 09/13/2007
• Published 09/13/2007

Judges

• Before:  AMBRO, FUENTES and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Craig R. Gottlieb (Argued), City of Philadelphia Law Department, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ralph J. Kelly (Argued), McShea & Tecce, Philadelphia, PA, for Appellees.