Legal Opinion
Gaddis Ex Rel. Gaddis v. Redford Township
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 26, 2004No. 02-1483PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBoggs, C.J., joined by Krupansky, J.,
CLAY, J. (pp. 777-86), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
BOGGS, Chief Judge.
Joseph Gaddis, a mentally ill man proceeding by his next friend, appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. Mr. Gaddis claims that the individual defendants, members of two *766Michigan municipal police departments, violated his Fourth Amendment rights by stopping his car without justification, and by using excessive force in an ensuing confrontation that culminated in two officers shooting Gaddis. The district court concluded that Gaddis had…
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