Robert P. Brennan v. Township of Northville, Lawrence Demeter and Fred Yankee, Individually and in Their Official Capacities

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• noting that qualified immunity is inextricably intertwined with the issue of liability when the two analyses are “coterminous with, or subsumed in” each other
• reviewing a partial summary judgment pendent to a denial of qualified immunity, “in the interest of judicial economy”
• exercising pendent appellate jurisdiction over the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the plaintiff because “the judgment for [plaintiff] simply [could not] stand” based on the reversal of the district court’s denial of summary judgment to defendants
• asserting jurisdiction over plaintiff's underlying constitutional claims when considering appeal of police officers sued in their individual capacity, and noting that the court could have asserted jurisdiction over the an appeal by the city had the city pursued one
• asserting jurisdiction over plaintiffs underlying constitutional claims when considering appeal of police officers sued in their individual capacity, and noting that the court could have asserted jurisdiction over the an appeal by the city had the city pursued one
• “Yankee testified . . . that an emergency magistrate was available in the evenings for the purpose of obtaining search warrants[.]”

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