United States Fourth Circuit

The district court's denial of qualified immunity and public officers' immunity is affirmed where the police officers defendants violated clearly established federal law and an officer of reasonable intelligence would have known that the defendants' actions were contrary to their duty.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/17/2003
• Published 11/17/2003

Judges

• Before WILLIAMS and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: Robert Danny Mason, Jr., Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Winston-Salem, NC, for Appellants.  Stephen Luke Largess, Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Wallas, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A., Charlotte, NC, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF: James R. Morgan, Jr., Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Winston-Salem, NC, for Appellants.