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161689P.pdf 12/08/2016 Shahryar Gilani v. John Matthews
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 16-1689
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Colloton and Melloy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. The district court did not err in granting the
defendant police officers' motion for summary judgment based on qualified
immunity on plaintiff's claim that the officers arrested him on account of
his ethnicity in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection
Clause; plaintiff failed to show the officers exercised their discretion
to enforce traffic laws solely because of his ethnicity; plaintiff failed
to show both that the enforcement had a discriminatory effect and that the
enforcement was motivated by discriminatory intent.