Frank Humphrey v. Norbert Staszak

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an officer could reasonably believe that he had probable cause to arrest for disorderly conduct where an individual argued with officers as they tried to arrest another person
• suggesting that the defense of qualified immunity should provide broad protection from suit in the context of an arrest for disorderly conduct
• “Officers are entitled to summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds if their actions were not objectively unreasonable at the time they were taken.”
• “Officers are entitled to summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds if their actions were not objectively unreasonable at the time they were taken.”
• validity of affirmative defense is irrelevant to whether police officer sued for false arrest had probable cause to make arrest
• “There is no legal basis for allowing an affirmative defense, which might have allowed the plaintiff to escape a conviction for disorderly conduct, to interfere with the established § 1983 probable-cause-to- arrest analysis.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).