Legal Opinion
Thorp v. District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided November 5, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2015-0195PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JAMES E. BOASBERG, United States District Judge
Mark Twain once observed, “[T]he dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.” Letter to William D. Howells, April 2, 1899, in Selected Mark Twain-Howells Letters 1872-1910 at 331 (Anderson et al. eds., 1967). Plaintiff Mark Thorp, a dog owner who alleges that members of the Metropolitan Police Department treated him and his canine companion in an ungentlemanly and unconstitutional manner, would doubtless agree. In the current suit, he complains that MPD officers, inter alia, unlawfully searched his house,…
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