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133497P.pdf 12/08/2014 Brad Williams v. Horace Walters
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-3497
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Loken and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. A reasonable jury could find that defendant
violated plaintiff's rights when he caused plaintiff to be arrested for
theft of city property; there was not probable cause to believe plaintiff
had deprived the city of its property in connection with a payroll check
incident, and a reasonable jury could find that plaintiff's constitutional
rights were violated when he was arrested for theft based on cashing a
duplicate payroll check; defendant was not entitled to qualified immunity
as a reasonable official would understand that including false information
in and omitting relevant information from an arrest warrant affidavit in
an attempt to punish plaintiff for supporting defendant's political
opponent would constitute a violation of clearly established
constitutional rights; the district court's denial of defendant's motion
for summary judgment based on qualified immunity is affirmed, and
defendant's appeal of the court's rulings on state-law claims is dismissed
for lack of jurisdiction.