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152431P.pdf   08/23/2016  Leroy Duffie  v.  City of Lincoln
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  15-2431
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Lincoln   
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Shepherd and Kelly, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil Rights. The district court erred in granting defendants' motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity because the report on which the officers stopped plaintiff did not contain information sufficient to create a reasonable suspicion that plaintiff had or was about to commit a crime; under Nebraska law which permits a person to carry a handgun in open view, an objectively reasonable officer could not reliably conclude that the young man described in the incident report to police could not legally possess a firearm; nor did the convenience store clerk's report make out a case that the young man committed an assault; further, whatever suspicion the officer possessed decreased when placed in the context of his stop of plaintiff as an objectively reasonable officer would not mistake the 58-year-old bald plaintiff for the young man with short hair in the report; as a result, the defendant officers involved in the stop were not entitled to qualified immunity. Judge Shepherd, dissenting.