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123193P.pdf 08/05/2013 S.L. v. Richard Gray
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3193
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Smith and Gruender, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging plaintiff's arrest by St.
Louis police officers and a subsequent cover-up violated her civil rights,
the district court did not err in denying defendants Isshawn-O'Quinn's and
Harris's motions for summary judgment based on qualified immunity as a
reasonable jury could find on the evidence in the record that the officers
conspired to conceal another office's role in plaintiff's arrest, to
apprise that officer of the course of an internal investigation of the
cover-up and to prevent plaintiff from filing a Section 1983 action
following her false arrest, all of which actions violated plaintiff's
clearly established civil rights; city's appeal dismissed as the municipal
liability claims in the case were not inextricably intertwined with the
qualified immunity issues, and the court lacked jurisdiction to hear them
at this stage of the case. Judge Gruender, concurring in part and
dissenting in part.