To establish a conspiracy between defendants to violate a plaintiff's constitutional rights, a plaintiff need only show that the defendants shared a conspiratorial objective to engage in the conduct that caused the deprivation of rights. Our brief argues that the lower court erroneously applied an additional intent requirement in its analysis of Plaintiff-Appellant's civil conspiracy claim.
Allowing conspiracy claim to go forward against officers for fabrication, suppressing exculpatory evidence, and malicious prosecution.
Intracorporate conspiracy doctrine bars § 1985 claims against officers from same department; because circuit has not decided whether intracorporate conspiracy doctrine bars § 1983 claims, law is not clearly established and officers are entitled to qualified immunity on § 1983 conspiracy claims.
Discussing history of intracorporate conspiracy doctrine in civil rights cases, noting issue is fact specific and suggesting there is no general rule, declining to reach merits in this case, affording qualified immunity because law is unclear.
Intracorporate conspiracy doctrine would not bar conspiracy claim against city fire officials for falsifying fire and origin report because falsifying report was outside the scope of their employment.
Botched drug raid wherein police shot 92 y.o. woman 8x (39 shots fired total) after she’d shot her pistol once, assuming she was being robbed. Officer admitted to planting marijuana in her home after she died; survived by niece. Officers pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, making false statements, federal charges of conspiracy.