Legal Opinion
Smith v. Mattox
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided November 19, 1997No. 96-6648PublishedCited by 197 opinions
1Per curiam
E. Alen Mattox, a police officer, appeals the denial of his qualified-immunity-based motion for summary judgment in this Fourth Amendment excessive-force action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
A. Facts
On appeals of denial of summary judgment, this court draws all reasonable inferences from the record evidence that are favorable to the nonmovant plaintiff. 1 This court also avoids all credibility judgments. 2 Thus we distill the following story from this action’s sharply conflicting evidence.
The plaintiff, Anthony Lee Smith, went to visit his mother one afternoon at her…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Anderson v. CreightonSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- United States v. LanierSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
- Behrens v. PelletierSupreme Court of the United States · 1996
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3Cited by197 opinions
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