Legal Opinion
Jerome Yates, Jameela Yates v. City of Cleveland, Sanford L. Currie, Officer
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 1, 1991No. 90-3556PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NATHANIEL R. JONES, Circuit Judge.
This case involves a section 1983 claim of excessive force against a police officer and a municipality. The district court denied a summary judgment motion based on the police officer’s qualified immunity. The defendant then brought this interlocutory appeal of the denial of qualified immunity under Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985). We agree with the district court that the police officer is not entitled to qualified immunity, and therefore affirm.
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