RISBRIDGER v. CONNELLY

No. 00-2471.

275 F.3d 565 (2002)

Benjamin Travis RISBRIDGER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Lawton CONNELLY, Chief of Police, City of East Lansing, in his Official and Individual Capacities; Shereif Fadly, a police officer of the City of East Lansing, in his individual capacity, Defendants-Appellants, City of East Lansing, a Municipal Corporation, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed January 4, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Steinberg (argued and briefed), American Civil Liberties Union Fund of Michigan, Detroit, MI, Dorean M. Koenig (argued and briefed), Thomas Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Mary Massaron Ross (argued and briefed), Plunkett & Cooney, Detroit, MI, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: GUY and BOGGS, Circuit Judges; CARR, District Judge.


OPINION

RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.

Defendants Lawton Connelly, Chief of Police for the City of East Lansing, and Shereif Fadly, an East Lansing police officer, appeal from the entry of partial summary judgment and the district court's decision to deny them qualified immunity with respect to the plaintiff's Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Officer Fadly stopped plaintiff, Benjamin Risbridger, based on reasonable...

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