Hopkins v. O'CONNOR

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• recognizing need for consistency between statutory scheme and common law and declining to extend common-law absolute immunity to officer's actions where statute imposed criminal liability for same actions
• recognizing need for consistency between statutory scheme and common law and declining to extend common-law absolute immunity to officer’s actions where statute imposed criminal liability for same actions
• explaining that officer who took individual into \involuntary custody and caused him to be transported\ to hospital for psychiatric evaluation pursuant to § 17a-503 [a] was \serving less in a law enforcement capacity than in a health and safety capacity\
• explaining that officer who took individual into ‘‘involuntary custody and caused him to be transported’’ to hospital for psychiatric evalu- ation pursuant to § 17a-503 [a] was ‘‘serving less in a law enforcement capacity than in a health and safety capacity’’
• relying on criminal penalty in General Statutes § 17a-504 for wrongful acts in connection with psychiatric commitment to conclude that common law provided police officer with qualified, rather than absolute, civil immunity
• “[t]he denial of a motion for summary judgment ordinarily is an interlocutory ruling and, accordingly, is not a final judgment for purposes of appeal”

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