13-4344 L.H. v. County of Livingston



### UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS **FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT**



## SUMMARY ORDER

**R ULINGS BY SUMMARY ORDER DO NOT HAVE PRECEDENTIAL EFFECT**  **. C**  **ITATION TO A SUMMARY ORDER FILED ON OR AFTER**  **J ANUARY**  **1, 2007,**  **IS PERMITTED AND IS GOVERNED BY F**  **EDERAL R** **ULE OF A** **PPELLATE P**  **ROCEDURE 32.1**  **AND THIS COURT ’**  **S L**  **OCAL R** **ULE 32.1.1.**  **W HEN CITING A SUMMARY ORDER IN A**  **DOCUMENT FILED WITH THIS COURT ,**  **A PARTY MUST CITE EITHER THE F**  **EDERAL A** **PPENDIX OR AN ELECTRONIC DATABASE**  **( WITH THE NOTATION**  **“ SUMMARY ORDER**  **”). A**  **PARTY CITING A SUMMARY ORDER MUST SERVE A COPY OF IT ON ANY PARTY NOT REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL**  **. At a stated term of the United States Court of Appeals**  1 **for the Second Circuit, held at the Thurgood Marshall United** 2 **States Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, in the City of New York,** 3 **on the 22 nd** **day of January, two thousand fifteen.** 4 5 **PRESENT: DENNIS JACOBS,** 6 **DEBRA ANN LIVINGSTON,** 7 **RAYMOND J. LOHIER, JR.,** 8 **Circuit Judges**

**.** 9 10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -X 11 **L.H., individually, and as parent and** 12 **guardian of T.D., and T.D.,** 13 **Plaintiffs-Appellees ,**  14 15 **-v.- 13-4344** 16 17 **COUNTY OF LIVINGSTON, THOMAS E. MORAN,** 18 **individually and in his official** 19 **capacity as former District Attorney** 20 **of Livingston County, LINDSAY P.** 21 **QUINTILONE, individually and in her** 22 **official capacity as former Assistant** 23 **District Attorney of Livingston** 24 **County, and other known or unknown** 25 **employees of the County of Livingston,** 26 **Defendants-Appellants**

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1**FOR APPELLANTS:** Jeremy A. Colby, Michael P. 1 McClaren, Webster Szanyi LLP, 2 Buffalo, New York. 3 4 **FOR APPELLEES:** Jeffrey Wicks, PLLC, Rochester, 5 New York. 6 7 Appeal from an order of the United States District 8 Court for the Western District of New York (Telesca, J. ). 9 10 **UPON DUE CONSIDERATION, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED** 11 **AND DECREED**that the order of the district court be 12 **AFFIRMED**

. 13 14 Defendant Lindsay P. Quintilone, a former prosecutor, 15 appeals from an order of the United States District Court 16 for the Western District of New York (Telesca, J. ), denying 17 (in part) her motion to dismiss on grounds of absolute and 18 qualified immunity . See Mitchell v. Forsyth , 472 U.S. 511, 19 524-30 (1985). We assume the parties’ familiarity with the 20 underlying facts, the procedural history, and the issues 21 presented for review. 22 23 As the district court held, defendant’s absolute 24 immunity argument is foreclosed by Hill v. City of New York
, 25 45 F.3d 653 (2d Cir. 1995), in which we denied absolute 26 immunity to a state prosecutor on facts that are materially 27 the same. 28 29 The claim for qualified immunity was abandoned, for 30 unknown reasons, in Quintilone’s reply brief (“[f]or 31 purposes of this appeal only”). So we will not consider it 32 at this time. Of course, she may renew the defense before 33 the district court at a later stage (and, if necessary, may 34 seek further appellate review, see Behrens v. Pelletier , 516 35 U.S. 299, 305-11 (1996)). 36 37 For the foregoing reasons, and finding no merit in 38 defendant’s other arguments, we hereby **AFFIRM** the order of 39 the district court. 40 41 FOR THE COURT: 42 CATHERINE O’HAGAN WOLFE, CLERK 43 44

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