Legal Opinion
MacDonald v. Town of Eastham
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 12, 2014No. 13-1779PublishedCited by 70 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal poses the question of whether police officers, responding to a call from a citizen concerned that the door to her absent neighbor’s home is standing wide open, have a right to enter the home in pursuance of their community caretaking function. While the answer to this question is freighted with uncertainty, that uncertainty points the way to the proper disposition of the case: because there is no clearly established law that would deter reasonable police officers from effecting such an entry, the individual defendants are entitled to qualified immunity.…
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