JOHNSON v. CITY OF FERGUSON, MISSOURI

No. 16-1697.

926 F.3d 504 (2019)

Dorian JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF FERGUSON, MISSOURI; Thomas Jackson; Darren Wilson Defendants-Appellants National Police Association Amicus on Behalf of Appellant(s).

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: June 17, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Renfro Brown , SMITH & BROWN, Clayton, MO, Inemesit U. O'Boyle , James McClendon Williams , CHEHARDY & SHERMAN, Metairie, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Peter J. Dunne , Robert T. Plunkert , PITZER & SNODGRASS, Saint Louis, MO, for Defendants-Appellants.

Edward Dean Greim , GRAVES & GARRETT, Kansas City, MO, Kent S. Scheidegger , Kymberlee C. Stapleton , CRIMINAL JUSTICE LEGAL FOUNDATION, Sacramento, CA, Alan Thomas Simpson , U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, Kansas City, MO, for Amicus on Behalf of Appellant(s) National Police Association.

Before SMITH, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN, LOKEN, MURPHY, MELLOY, COLLOTON, GRUENDER, BENTON, SHEPHERD, KELLY, and ERICKSON, Circuit Judges, En Banc.


In Johnson v. City of Ferguson, 864 F.3d 866 (8th Cir. 2017), a panel of our court affirmed the district court's ruling that Dorian Johnson had alleged sufficient facts to state 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims of unlawful seizure and the use of excessive force against...

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