United States Fifth Circuit

Sheriff deputy lacked probable cause to arrest plaintiff without further investigation and was not entitled to qualified immunity in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 where arresting plaintiff based on miniscule information was objectively unreasonable. Deputy's supervisor was entitled to qualified immunity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/12/2003
• Published 05/12/2003

Judges

• DeMOSS, Circuit Judge:, Before DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and LITTLE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Curtis B. Stuckey (argued), Stuckey, Garrigan & Castetter, Nacogdoches, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., Robert Scott Davis (argued), Christi Johnson Kennedy, Flowers Davis, Tyler, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.