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111367P.pdf 12/22/2011 Jennifer Johnson v. Joe Phillips
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 11-1367
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and
Gruender, Circuit Judge]
Civil case - Civil rights. District court properly denied defendant's
motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity on plaintiff's
claim defendant lacked reasonable suspicion to detain her through a traffic
stop; district court should have dismissed plaintiff's claim that defendant
unlawfully arrested her as plaintiff admitted to defendant she had an
outstanding warrant and that admission created probable cause; defendant
was not entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff's claim that defendant
illegally searched her car without probable cause; nor was defendant
entitled to qualified immunity on the claim that he violated plaintiff's due
process right to bodily integrity during incident as defendant was acting
under color of state law at the time of his actions and any reasonable
officer would have known his conduct (which led to his criminal
conviction for violating plaintiff's civil rights) violated clearly
established law.