Legal Opinion
Debbie Latits v. Lowell Phillips
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided December 27, 2017No. 15-2306PublishedCited by 158 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtStranch, J., joined by Black, D.J.,
CLAY, J. (pp. 554-59), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
OPINION
JANE B. STRANCH, Circuit Judge.
Lowell Phillips, then a Ferndale Police Officer, ended a car chase on the outskirts of Detroit by ramming Laszlo Latits’s car off the road and then shooting and lolling Latits as he tried to resume flight. Latits’s widow sued former Officer Phillips under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that Phillips’s actions violated the Fourth Amendment. The district court granted summary judgment to Phillips, concluding that the shooting was reasonable. We determine that Phillips’s…
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