Higgins v. Penobscot County Sheriff's Department

This case arises from an incident in which defendant Joshua Tibbetts, a deputy sheriff with the Penobscot County Sheriffs Department, issued plaintiff Barry Higgins a no-trespass warning and ordered him to leave the T & N Trailer Park in Carmel, Maine. The district court granted the defendants (Tibbetts, Tibbetts’ supervisor Sheriff Glenn Ross, and the Department itself) summary judgment on Higgins’ claims that' defendants deprived him of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and certain other rights secured him under Maine common law. The court also granted defendants judgment on the…