Summer may have officially begun, but it looks like the New York Legislature could still stand to do a little spring cleaning.  The Second Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided that a police officer cannot be liable for an illegal arrest because the unconstitutional no-loitering law that he was enforcing was still “on the books.”  Though it may be “hard to understand why the [New York] Legislature would continue this statute on the books, given that it is now close to 20 years since it was determined to be unconstitutional,” the Second Circuit held that the issue for the police was “whether it was objectively reasonable for [Officer] Novarro to fail to realize that the statute he was attempting to enforce against [the arrestee] had been held to be unconstitutional by the New York Court of Appeals.”  Because the court thought it was reasonable for Novarro to think the law was still in effect under the circumstances, he couldn’t be successfully sued by the arrestee.