Legal Opinion
Daughenbaugh v. City of Tiffin
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 31, 1998No. 97-3200PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GILMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a civil action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by a homeowner against his municipality and three of its law enforcement officers. The homeowner seeks damages resulting from the warrantless search of his unattached and remote garage in pursuit of *596stolen goods placed there by a thief without the homeowner’s knowledge. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of all the defendants, holding that the garage was not part of the home’s “curtilage,” and that the officers were entitled to qualified immunity.
For the reasons set forth below, we find that…
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