Court Opinion

ID: 9489863
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 13:26:13.358005+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:53:45.656839
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WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
The district court found that Ms-Primeaux submitted to Scott’s demands out of fear and intimidation, arising from Scott’s apparent position of authority as a police officer and as *1464one who appeared to have the power to carry out his commands. The district court’s finding that it was not foreseeable that Scott would use his status as a police officer to commit the acts that he did at the time and place that he did includes, in my view at least, the implicit finding that Scott’s exercise of apparent authority in the circumstances of this case could not have been within the scope of his employment. What more the district court could and should have found with respect to Scott’s position of apparent authority, I do not know. However reprehensible Scott’s actions, I do not believe that the district court’s findings are clearly erroneous, and thus I would affirm the judgment.