Legal Opinion
Calabretta v. Floyd
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 26, 1999No. 97-15385PublishedCited by 75 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:
This case involves whether a social worker and a police officer were entitled to qualified immunity, for a coerced entry into a home to investigate suspected child abuse, interrogation of a child, and strip search of a child, conducted without a search warrant and without a special exigency.
Facts.
The two individual defendants moved for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. The district judge denied it.
Some individual called the Department of Social Services October 27, 1994, with the information that gave rise to this case. The report says that the caller was…
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