MYERS v. PATTERSON

Docket No. 14-2554-cv.

819 F.3d 625 (2016)

Damani Jabari MYERS, Plaintiff, and Julia Johnson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Police Officer PATTERSON, Shield No. 658, 1st Pct, Defendant-Appellee, and Eddie James Myers, Jr.; Benjamin Malewicz; Jodi Weitzman-Fisher; John Ciapoli, Nassau County Attorney; Karen Murphy, Justice, Nassau County Supreme Court; Donna Guarton, Nassau County Baldwin, UFSD, Psychologist; Robert Barris, MD; G. St. Victor, Dr.; Arthur A. Gianella, President/CEO Nassau University Medical Center; Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: April 11, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Loraine M. Cortese-Costa , Law Offices of Loraine M. Cortese-Costa, Bridgeport, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Robert F. Van der Waag , Deputy County Attorney for Carnell T. Foskey , Nassau County Attorney, Mineola, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: JACOBS, LEVAL, and CALABRESI, Circuit Judges.


The case before us concerns Plaintiff Julia Johnson's appeal from the district court's grant of qualified immunity to Defendant Police Officer Patterson. The district court dismissed Johnson's claim against him by reason of his having seized her for psychiatric evaluation based...

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