Legal Opinion
Wren v. Towe
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 30, 1997No. 96-11388PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Per curiam
The case before this panel comes from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Judge Robert B. Malo-ney, presiding. The district court denied a motion for summary judgment made by the Defendants-Appellants, Jay Norris (“Norris”) and Jim Towe (“Towe”) on the issue of qualified immunity.
Background
In January of 1995, Norris was teaching a class in Basic Auto Theft to a group of students at the Arlington Regional Police Academy. During one of these lessons, Norris was informed by an eager student that he saw a Chevrolet pickup truck parked in the parking lot that was…
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