United States Sixth Circuit

Sheriff's deputies are entitled to qualified immunity based on third-party's "common authority" consent to deputies' entry onto property; appellate jurisdiction on qualified immunity is proper where existing questions of fact are extraneous to the qualified immunity question.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/22/2002
• Published 05/22/2002

Judges

• Before:  SUHRHEINRICH and GILMAN, Circuit Judges;  HOOD, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• David J. Gerchak (briefed), Boardman, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellee., Thomas N. Michaels (briefed), Office of the Mahoning County Prosecutor, Youngstown, OH, for Defendants-Appellants.