182809P.pdf   03/06/2020  Megan McGuire  v.  Cory Cooper
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-2809
   U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska - Omaha   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Gruender and Kelly, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. In this case, plaintiff alleged Cooper, a 
   Douglas County deputy sheriff, sexually assaulted her and violated her 
   civil rights; the district court denied the Sheriff's motion for summary 
   judgment, and the Sheriff appealed, contending he was entitled to 
   qualified immunity; the district court's order is reversed and the matter 
   is remanded with directions to enter judgment for the Sheriff on the basis 
   of qualified immunity; held, the prior instances of sexual misconduct by 
   deputies were not similar in kind or sufficiently egregious in nature to 
   demonstrate a pattern of sexual assault against members of the public by 
   the deputies; as such, it was not sufficient to put the Sheriff on notice 
   that a deputy might, as Cooper allegedly did, use his position to separate 
   a woman from her boyfriend at a park and coerce her to engage in sexual 
   contact with him; a reasonable officer in the Sheriff's position would not 
   have known that he needed to more closely supervise his deputies or they 
   might sexually assault a member of the public; nor would a reasonable 
   supervisor in the Sheriff's position know that a failure to specifically 
   train Cooper not to sexually assault a woman would cause him to engage in 
   the behavior.