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123426P.pdf 07/31/2013 David Roberts v. City of Omaha
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3426
U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Melloy and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. No reasonable officer could have known the ADA
and the Rehabilitation Act imposed a duty to accommodate plaintiff's
disability while the officers were attempting to secure him and take him
to custody for his own safety and the safety of the officers and
plaintiff's family and, as result, the officers were entitled to qualified
immunity on his ADA and Rehabilitation Act claims; district court did not
err in finding officer Martinec was not entitled to qualified immunity on
plaintiff's Fourth Amendment deadly force claim as there was a genuine
dispute of material fact regarding whether plaintiff posed an objectively
reasonable threat of violence during the entire encounter; two other
officers were entitled to qualified immunity on this claim as it is
undisputed that neither of them had physical contact with plaintiff or
applied any force during the encounter; a third officer was also entitled
to qualified immunity as it could not be said that it was objectively
unreasonable for him to remove plaintiff from his bed after plaintiff
refused to comply with the officers' orders; city was entitled to summary
judgment on plaintiff's ADA and Rehabilitation Act failure to train
claims.