2nd Circuit: Police Chief Owed Immunity From Retaliation Suit

(February 2, 2016, 2:14 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A trial court erred when it denied qualified immunity to a police chief in a 42 U.S. Code Section 1983 retaliation suit as “there was no clearly established precedent at the time of the defendant’s conduct that her conduct violated constitutional norms,” a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Jan. 28 (Todd Lynch v. Margaret Ackley, et al., No. 14-3751, 2nd Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 1378)....

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