SOARES v. STATE OF CONN.

No. 333, Docket 93-7377.

8 F.3d 917 (1993)

Manuel SOARES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Department of Environmental Protection, Leslie Carothers, Former Commissioner of D.E.P., Joseph Healy, Captain, Eric Smith, Defendants, Henry Konow, Sergeant, Clayton Firmin, Officer, John Luty, Officer, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 2, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Bradley, Stonington, CT, for plaintiff-appellee.

Robert B. Teitelman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, CT (Richard Blumenthal, Atty. Gen.), for defendants-appellants.

Before: VAN GRAAFEILAND, WALKER, and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.


WALKER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from an order of the District Court of the District of Connecticut (Alan H. Nevas, Judge) that denied three state employee defendants summary judgment on their qualified immunity defense to plaintiff's claim that when they arrested him on a warrant and placed him in handcuffs they violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The district court held that issues of fact existed as to the qualified immunity defense because one defendant...

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