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201743P.pdf   06/30/2021  Fred Watson  v.  Eddie Boyd, III
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-1743
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Erickson and Kobes, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil rights. In action alleging the police defendant and the City of Ferguson, Missouri violated plaintiff's First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights by seizing him, searching his car, pointing a gun at him and issuing him tickets for nine different violations, the district court erred in denying defendants' motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity, and the matter must be remanded so that the district court may further consider the police officer's asserted entitlement to qualified immunity; the district court failed to adequately address whether the factual disputed were material; nor can this court determine whether the district court thoroughly analyzed and determined the question of whether a clearly established right was involved; additionally, the court defined the relevant law at too high a level of generality to conduct a proper "clearly established" analysis; finally, the district court's excessive force analysis failed to identify a specific right or factually analogous case; because of the district court's incomplete analysis on both the constitutional violation and the clearly established prongs, the court can neither affirm nor reverse the denial of qualified immunity, and the matter must be remanded for further consideration; the City's appeal is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction as the decision to remand the claims against the officer does not resolved plaintiff's Monell claim against the City.