NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Files En Banc Petition in Case Challenging Qualified Immunity
April 02, 2020
April 02, 2020
NEW YORK, April 2 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news release:
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) along with Cleveland-based civil rights attorney James Hardiman, filed an en banc petition in Howse v. Hodous.
The plaintiff, Shase Howse, was accosted and arrested on his front porch by a plainclothes officer. Mr. Howse was tackled, punched in the neck, and arrested without violating "clearly established law. . . .
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) along with Cleveland-based civil rights attorney James Hardiman, filed an en banc petition in Howse v. Hodous.
The plaintiff, Shase Howse, was accosted and arrested on his front porch by a plainclothes officer. Mr. Howse was tackled, punched in the neck, and arrested without violating "clearly established law. . . .