Legal Opinion
Oliveira v. Mayer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 28, 1994No. 1013, Docket 93-7813PublishedCited by 216 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON 0. NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
This appeal primarily concerns the interplay, in the context of a jury trial, between the Fourth Amendment standards for making arrests and stops and the standard for allowing the defense of qualified immunity. Seven police officers for the City of Stamford, Connecticut, appeal from a judgment entered July 7, 1993, by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (T.F. Gilroy Daly, Judge) awarding plaintiffs Luis Oliveira, Milton Oliveira, and Elias Mor-eiro, $60,000 in compensatory damages and $15,000 in punitive damages. We hold that it was…
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