COX v. HAINEY

No. 04-1761.

391 F.3d 25 (2004)

John E. COX III, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. John HAINEY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 1, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy E. Zerillo and Timothy Zerillo Law Offices, LLC on brief for appellant.

G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, and William R. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General, on brief for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge, and LYNCH, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

In this case, the district court entered summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee John Hainey, a state trooper, on a false arrest claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff-appellant John E. Cox III assigns error to the court's determination that qualified immunity shielded Hainey from suit. After careful perscrutation of an oddly configured factual record (including consideration of how, if at all, an officer's pre-arrest consultation...

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