Legal Opinion
Pleasants v. Town of Louisa
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided March 12, 2012No. Case No. 3:11-cv-00032PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
NORMAN K. MOON, District Judge.
This action for damages by Plaintiff Sloan Pleasants (“Ms. Pleasants”) against Defendants the Town of Louisa and Officer Robert Rigsby (“Rigsby”) arises out of Rigsby’s warrantless entry into Ms. Pleas-ants’s apartment and his subsequent decision to place her under arrest. Ms. Pleas-ants brings three claims against Rigsby under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Fourth Amendment on theories of false arrest (Count I), unlawful entry (Count II), and malicious prosecution (Count III). Ms. Pleasants is suing the Town of Louisa for failure…
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