Jerome Yates, Jameela Yates v. City of Cleveland, Sanford L. Currie, Officer

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Decided 1991-10-01

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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, <a href="/opinion/11148…

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