Legal Opinion
Prokey v. Watkins
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 19, 1991No. Nos. 90-1909 to 90-1913PublishedCited by 180 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.
In this interlocutory appeal defendants George Watkins, James Sweeney, Thomas S. Roche, Sr., Robert Schwartz, Mark Clark, Scott Cataldi and Roderick Beaulieu, all police officers, allege that the district court erred in denying them summary judgment on the issue of qualified immunity. Plaintiff Gloria Prokey, a former police officer in Sanford, Maine, brought this civil damages action under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985(3) alleging inter alia that members of the Sanford and South Portland Police Departments, as well as the Town of Sanford and the City of South…
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