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- Title: Pray V. City Of Sandusky
- Author : Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 21, 1995
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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BAILEY BROWN, Circuit Judge. The plaintiffs, Velma and Joe Pray, brought a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against various police officers and a municipality alleging an illegal search and seizure and excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment. After removal to federal court, the defendants filed a motion for summary judgment. The individual defendants relied in part on the affirmative defense of qualified immunity. The district court denied the motion, finding that genuine issues of material fact still exist. Three of the individual defendants, police officers Phillip Frost, Charles Sams, and Curtis Muehling, now bring this interlocutory appeal challenging the district court's order. We agree that genuine issues of material fact remain with respect to the defense of qualified immunity, and therefore, conclude that summary judgment is inappropriate. We AFFIRM.