Legal Opinion
Flowers v. Fiore
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 25, 2004No. 03-1170, 03-1533PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant Bernard Flowers appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellees Darren Fiore, Michael Garafola, Lawrence Silvestri, and the Town of Westerly, Rhode Island (“Town”). Flowers’ suit asserted violations of his constitutional rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments as well as pendent state law claims arising out of his stop and detention by members of the Westerly Police Department.
I. BACKGROUND
We draw the following recitation of facts from the summary judgment record, which includes Flowers’…
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