Legal Opinion
Eugene Hector v. Gordon J. Watt Alberto Diaz Richard Davy Scott Hunter, in Their Individual and Official Capacities
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 13, 2000No. 00-3084PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
COWEN, Circuit Judge:
In previous criminal proceedings Eugene Hector successfully argued that several state troopers violated the Fourth Amendment when they seized over 80 pounds of hallucinogenic mushrooms from Hector’s airplane in Dubois, Pennsylvania. Once the drugs were suppressed and the prosecution dismissed, Hector initiated this § 1983 action against the four appel-lees, Officers Gordon Watt, Mberto Diaz, Richard Davy, and Scott Hunter. The officers’ request for qualified immunity has already been denied and the order affirmed. Hector v. Watt, 203 F.3d 817 (3d…
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