United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging defendants-troopers used excessive force during a pat-down of plaintiff, denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity for defendants is affirmed where the facts, if resolved in plaintiff's favor, would show the officers violated his clearly established constitutional rights.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/25/2006
• Decided 03/30/2007
• Published 03/30/2007

Judges

• KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge., Before KOZINSKI, BERZON and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gregg D. Renkes, Attorney General, Stephanie Galbraith Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, AK, for the defendants-appellants., Ralph Kermit Winterrowd 2nd, pro se, Knik, AK, for the plaintiff-appellee.