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Police Qualified Immunity Rejected in Florida K9 Dog Bite Case
I wrote an article for BlueSheepdog.com based on a K9 bite case from U. S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit ruling in Edwards vs. Shanley and Lovette (11-11512) from the Orlando Police Department. The full article is linked above and gives the details of the call, but the gist of the ruling was that in the facts and circumstances specific to the Orlando incident in 2008, the judgment of the Appeals Court was to reject the qualified immunity defense of the two defendant police officers in this civil lawsuit. At consideration in the case was the plaintiff’s allegations that the K9 dog bit him for five to seven minutes, which … Continue reading