Legal Opinion
Club Retro, L.L.C. v. Hilton
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided May 6, 2009No. 08-30512PublishedCited by 327 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
Defendants, the Sheriff of Rapides Parish and four deputy sheriffs, appeal the district court’s denial of qualified immunity for their involvement in “Operation RetroFit,” a preplanned, violent S.W.A.T. team raid of a nightclub, Club Retro, on February 5, 2006. As a result of events that occurred during that raid, plaintiffs, owners and select employees of Club Retro, bring 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law claims against those five officers in their individual and official capacities. Relevant to this appeal, they allege that defendants’ planning, approving, and executing…
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