# Harris v. Kirby

> Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · January 23, 1998

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/13984

## Case

- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- **Decided:** January 23, 1998
- **Precedential status:** Unpublished
- **Opinion:** Opinion
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/13984

## Opinion text

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

NO. 97-60250
Summary Calendar

REX HARRIS

Plaintiff-Appellee

VERSUS

BRUCE KIRBY, Individually and as a member of the Police
Department of the City of Brandon, Mississippi, and as a Metro
Narcotics Agent of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics.

Defendant-Appellant

Appeal from the United States District Court
For the Southern District of Mississippi
(3:96-CV-747-BN)

January 21, 1998
Before JOLLY, BENAVIDES and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:*

Appellee Rex Harris brought suit against Appellant Bruce

Kirby, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for use of excessive force when

affecting an allegedly wrongful arrest of Appellee, while Appellant

was acting as a Metro Narcotics Agent of the Mississippi Bureau of

*
Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the Court has determined that
this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except
under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.

1
Narcotics. Appellant plead the defense of qualified immunity and

made a motion for summary judgment based thereon. The district

court refused to grant that motion and this appeal followed.

When reviewing the denial of a motion for summary judgment,

this Court lacks jurisdiction to review the sufficiency of the

evidence in support of and opposing the motion for summary

judgment. Johnson v. Jones, --- U.S. ---, ---, 115 S.Ct 2151, 2156

(1995). Therefore, we must accept the district court’s

determination that Appellee has introduced sufficient summary

judgment evidence to support his allegations and to present a jury

question on the issue of Officer Kirby’s qualified immunity. Nerren

v. Livingston Police Dep’t., 86 F.3d 469, 471-72 (5th Cir. 1996).

The allegations of Appellee’s complaint, presumptively

supported by sufficient evidence, demonstrate a violation of his

clearly established constitutional rights. Furthermore, we cannot

say on these facts, as a matter of law, that Officer Kirby acted in

an objectively reasonable manner. Therefore, the district court

did not err by refusing summary judgment based on the defense of

qualified immunity, and we affirm and remand this matter for trial

on the merits.

AFFIRMED.

2

---

Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/13984. Public record. Not legal advice.