Lyons v. Adams

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there was no evidence that the incident in question involved the officers' performance of their official duties because, inter alia , they did not wear police uniforms, did not identify themselves as police officers, and did not display their badges
• finding defendant officers did not act under color of state law because their “actions in the fight are indistinguishable from those of private actors that have engaged in a brawl”
• “[T]he analysis of the scope of employment issue is essentially the same for purposes of liability under the doctrine of respondeat superior and indemnification under Section 10/9– 102[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).