Dickerson v. McClellan
| Decision Date | 14 October 1994 |
| Docket Number | No. 94-5206,94-5206 |
| Citation | 37 F.3d 251 |
| Parties | Chad Timothy DICKERSON; Deon Denay Dickerson, a minor, by her mother & legal guardian; Sharon Dale Stephens, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Cory D. McCLELLAN, individually and in his official capacity as police officer for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee; Charles L. (Lonnie) Stevens, individually and in his official capacity as police officer for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, Defendants-Appellants, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, Defendant. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Sixth Circuit |
Jeffrey Zager and Thomas H. Peebles, Trabue, Sturdivant & DeWitt, Nashville, TN, for plaintiffs-appellees.
James L. Charles and E. Joseph Fitzpatrick, Jr., the Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County Dept. of Law, Nashville, TN, for defendants-appellants.
Before CONTIE, MILBURN, and DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judges.
The two individual defendants appeal the district court's denial of qualified immunity in this civil rights action. Now before the court is a motion by the defendants seeking 1) to supplement the appellate record with the evidence produced at trial, and 2) to reverse the district court's order certifying the appeal as frivolous and to decide this appeal prior to any trial. We have addressed these requests separately in an order filed contemporaneously. However, we write here specifically to address an issue as to our appellate jurisdiction.
After the defendant officers had perfected their appeal, the plaintiffs moved the district court to certify the appeal as frivolous and to proceed with the trial. The district court issued an opinion in which it certified the appeal as frivolous. Dickerson v. McClellan, 844 F.Supp. 391 (M.D.Tenn.1994). Therein, the district court directed the defendants' notice of appeal to be dismissed. Id. at 397. In so doing, the district court exceeded its authority, and this attempted "dismissal" in no way affects our jurisdiction in this appeal.
The denial of a motion for summary judgment on grounds of qualified immunity is an appealable order. Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511, 522, 105 S.Ct. 2806, 2813, 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985). Although this court has suggested in the past that a district court may have jurisdiction to certify an interlocutory appeal from the denial of qualified immunity as frivolous, see e.g. Yates v. City of Cleveland, 941 F.2d...
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