Legal Opinion
Farmer v. Lawson
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided March 2, 1981No. Civ. A. C79-190RPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.
On the evening of March 3, 1979, a number of law enforcement officials, including the two defendants, entered the premises of Clifton Farmer pursuant to a search warrant issued that afternoon by a Justice of the Peace in Whitfield County, Georgia. The defendants, in search of stolen property, found nothing, and were sued subsequently by the plaintiffs for violating the plaintiffs’ civil rights. The cause of action arises from 42 U.S.C. § 1983; jurisdiction is founded on 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3).
Plaintiff Farmer owns certain property in Whitfield County.…
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