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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 06:22:20+00:00

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PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE, et al., Defendants.
Pending before the Court is Defendant Jack R. Heneks's (“Heneks's”) Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 61). For the reasons stated below, Defendant's Motion will be denied.
Plaintiff initiated the instant action on June 12, 2015. (Doc. 1.) Following this Court's Memorandum Order on Defendants' Motions to Dismiss (Doc. 36), the only claim remaining against Heneks is a claim against him in his personal capacity for false arrest.
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution provides “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons . . . against unreasonable searches and seizures.” U.S. Const. Amend IV. For purposes of a false arrest claim, an “arrest” is analyzed as a seizure of a person. See Aschroft v. al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 735 (2011). Whether there was a seizure of a person turns on whether “the officer, by means of physical force or show of authority, has in some way restrained the liberty of a citizen.” Florida v. Bostick, 501 U.S. 429, 434 (1991) (citation omitted). Put differently, the relevant question is whether “a reasonable person would feel free to ‘disregard the police and go about his business.'” Id. (quoting California v. Hodari D., 499 U.S. 621, 628 (1991)); accord Schneyder v. Smith, 653 F.3d 313, 322 (3d Cir. 2011) (“a person has been ‘seized' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment only if, in view of all the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he was not free to leave” (internal citation omitted)). The two elements of a successful false arrest claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a violation of rights secured by the Fourth Amendment are (1) an arrest (2) that was made without probable cause. James v. City of Wilkes-Barre, 700 F.3d 675, 680 (3d Cir. 2012) (citing Groman v. Twp. of Manalapan, 47 F.3d 628, 634 (3d Cir. 1995)).

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