Ross v. City of New Orleans

hLOVE, Judge.

Defendants, The City of New Orleans and Sheriff Harry Lee, appeal the trial court’s judgment awarding damages to the plaintiffs for an unreasonable search during an attempt to execute an arrest warrant at the wrong house. The trial court found that the plaintiffs were subjected to humiliation and some physical injury as a result of the arrest attempt. For the following reasons, we affirm the judgment of the trial court because we find that the New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD”) and the Jefferson Parish Sheriffs Office (“JPSO”) acted unreasonable in searching the Ross home.…