SUMMERVILLE v. NEW JERSEY STATE TROOPERS JOHN DOES 1-10

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY STANLEY SUMMERVILLE, No. 14-cv-7653 (KM)(MAH) FOMBAH SIRLEAF, Plaintiffs, OPINION v. DETECTIVE SERGEANT M. GREGORY, et al., Defendants. KEVIN MCNULTY, U.S.D.J.: This constitutional tort action under

42 U.S.C. § 1983

arises from an allegedly unconstitutional detention of the plaintiffs, Stanley Summerville and Fombah Sirleaf, by several New Jersey State Troopers. Plaintiffs allege that the scope of their detention exceeded that of a permissible Terry stop, violating their Fourth Amendment rights. As a result of the Third Circuit’s…