Legal Opinion
Garcia v. Does 1-40
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 21, 2014No. Docket No. 12-2634-cvPublishedCited by 271 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs-appellees, participants in a demonstration who were arrested after a confrontation with police at the Manhattan entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge, brought this action for false arrest in violation of their First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Defendant-appellant police officers appeal from a ruling of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Jed S. Rakoff, Judge) denying their motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6) on grounds of qualified immunity. By a divided vote, we initially affirmed the…
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