Legal Opinion
Risbridger v. Connelly
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 4, 2002No. 00-2471PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RALPH B. GUY, JR., Circuit Judge.
Defendants Lawton Connelly, Chief of Police for the City of East Lansing, and Shereif Fadly, an East Lansing police officer, appeal from the entry of partial summary judgment and the district court’s decision to deny them qualified immunity with respect to the plaintiffs Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Officer Fadly stopped plaintiff, Benjamin Risbridger, based on reasonable suspicion that he was involved in an assault and battery, and asked Risbridger for his identification. When Risbridger adamantly refused,…
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