Legal Opinion
Simon v. City of N.Y.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 21, 2018No. Docket No. 17-1281; August Term, 2017PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Katzmann, Chief Judge:
*88This case takes us to the intersection of an allegedly wrongful arrest and detention on a material witness warrant, the Fourth Amendment, and qualified immunity. Plaintiff Alexina Simon brought this action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Vitaliano, J .) under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that a state prosecutor and two police officers falsely arrested and imprisoned her in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Simon alleges that the defendants unlawfully detained her for 18 hours over two days on the authority of a warrant that, on…
2Cases cited46 opinions
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