UNDERWOOD v. CITY OF BESSEMER

No. 19-13992.

11 F.4th 1317 (2021)

Marcus UNDERWOOD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF BESSEMER, The, a municipality, Nathaniel Rutledge, individually and in his official capacity as Chief of Police for the City of Bessemer, Daniel Cecil Partridge, individually and in his official capacity as a law enforcement officer for the City of Bessemer Police Department, Christopher Asarisi, individually and in his official capacity as a law enforcement officer of the City of Bessemer Police Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 2, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Clay Allen , The Law Offices of Andrew C. Allen, LLC, Homewood, AL, Peter H. Burke , Burke Harvey, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard Warren Kinney, III , James W. Porter, II , Jeffrey Speegle , Porter Porter Hassinger, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WILSON, ROSENBAUM, and HULL, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff-appellant Marcus Underwood appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendants-appellees Officers Daniel Partridge and Christopher Asarisi, the City of Bessemer, Alabama (Bessemer or the City), and former Bessemer Chief of Police Nathaniel Rutledge (collectively, Defendants). Underwood claims that...

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