Tom Gaillard and Bill Watts obtain summary judgment in federal court for a municipality and several police officers

Helmsing Leach partners Tom Gaillard and Bill Watts obtained summary judgment in the Mobile, Ala. federal court for a municipality and several police officers accused of violation of civil rights. Police arrested the plaintiff for trespass on lands he claimed to own along with his siblings. The court found that the officers had qualified immunity for their actions as a matter of law and found that no basis existed for the municipality to be liable.