Does the good faith defense apply to claims for denial of constitutional rights based on excessive force and malicious prosecution?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Vippolis v. Village of Haverstraw, 768 F.2d 40 (2nd Cir. 1985):
3 We do not decide whether the good-faith defense, now limited to the single inquiry of whether circumstances existed to justify an objectively reasonable good-faith belief in the lawfulness of the defendant's actions, see Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S. 800, 102 S.Ct. 2727, 73 L.Ed.2d 396 (1982); Pollnow v. Glennon, 757 F.2d 496 (2d Cir.1985), is applicable to claims for denial of constitutional rights based on use of excessive force and malicious prosecution.
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