13-4344
L.H. v. County of Livingston
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
SUMMARY ORDER
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1 At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals
2 for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United
3 States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York,
4 on the 22nd day of January, two thousand fifteen.
5
6 PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS,
7 DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON,
8 RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR.,
9 Circuit Judges.
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12 L.H., individually, and as parent and
13 guardian of T.D., and T.D.,
14 Plaintiffs-Appellees,
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18 COUNTY OF LIVINGSTON, THOMAS E. MORAN,
19 individually and in his official
20 capacity as former District Attorney
21 of Livingston County, LINDSAY P.
22 QUINTILONE, individually and in her
23 official capacity as former Assistant
24 District Attorney of Livingston
25 County, and other known or unknown
26 employees of the County of Livingston,
27 Defendants-Appellants.
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1 FOR APPELLANTS: Jeremy A. Colby, Michael P.
2 McClaren, Webster Szanyi LLP,
3 Buffalo, New York.
4
5 FOR APPELLEES: Jeffrey Wicks, PLLC, Rochester,
6 New York.
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8 Appeal from an order of the United States District
9 Court for the Western District of New York (Telesca, J.).
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11 UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED
12 AND DECREED that the order of the district court be
13 AFFIRMED.
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15 Defendant Lindsay P. Quintilone, a former prosecutor,
16 appeals from an order of the United States District Court
17 for the Western District of New York (Telesca, J.), denying
18 (in part) her motion to dismiss on grounds of absolute and
19 qualified immunity. See Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511,
20 524-30 (1985). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the
21 underlying facts, the procedural history, and the issues
22 presented for review.
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24 As the district court held, defendant’s absolute
25 immunity argument is foreclosed by Hill v. City of New York,
26 45 F.3d 653 (2d Cir. 1995), in which we denied absolute
27 immunity to a state prosecutor on facts that are materially
28 the same.
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30 The claim for qualified immunity was abandoned, for
31 unknown reasons, in Quintilone’s reply brief (“[f]or
32 purposes of this appeal only”). So we will not consider it
33 at this time. Of course, she may renew the defense before
34 the district court at a later stage (and, if necessary, may
35 seek further appellate review, see Behrens v. Pelletier, 516
36 U.S. 299, 305-11 (1996)).
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38 For the foregoing reasons, and finding no merit in
39 defendant’s other arguments, we hereby AFFIRM the order of
40 the district court.
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42 FOR THE COURT:
43 CATHERINE O’HAGAN WOLFE, CLERK
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