Case Name: Terri HOYER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M. DICOCCO, Defendant-Appellant
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-05-21
Citations: 224 F. App'x 103
Docket Number: No. 06-4758-cv
Parties: Terri HOYER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M. DICOCCO, Defendant-Appellant.
Judges: Present: Hon. ROGER J. MINER, Hon. ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, Hon. J. GARVAN MURTHA, District Judge.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 224
Pages: 103–104

Head Matter:
Terri HOYER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. M. DICOCCO, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 06-4758-cv.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
May 21, 2007.
Thomas R. Gerarde (Beatrice S. Jordan, on the brief), Howd & Ludorf, LLC, Hartford, CT, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
John R. Williams, New Haven, CT, for Defendant-Appellant.
Present: Hon. ROGER J. MINER, Hon. ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, Hon. J. GARVAN MURTHA, District Judge.
The Honorable J. Garvan Murtha, United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
SUMMARY ORDER
Defendant-appellant Mark DiCocco appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Droney, J.) denying his motion for summary judgment on the basis of his qualified immunity from suit. We assume the parties' familiarity with the facts, the proceedings below, and the specification of issues on appeal.
While we believe that the question in this case of whether " 'officers of reasonable competence could disagree on whether the probable cause test was met' " is a close one, we conclude that such disagreement is possible. Jenkins v. City of New York, 478 F.3d 76, 87 (2d Cir.2007) (quoting Lennon v. Miller, 66 F.3d 416, 423 (2d Cir.1995)). We are unable to find on the basis of the present record that DiCocco either acted in a "plainly incompetent" manner or that he "knowingly violate[d] the law." Zieper v. Metzinger, 474 F.3d 60, 71 (2d Cir.2007) (internal quotation marks omitted). As such, he is entitled to qualified immunity. See id.; see also Hunter v. Bryant, 502 U.S. 224, 229, 112 S.Ct. 534, 116 L.Ed.2d 589 (1991).
The judgment of the district court is therefore REVERSED, and the district court is instructed to grant summary judgment to DiCocco.