Legal Opinion

Sylvia Daniel v. Earl Taylor, Keith Dunkel, Bernadette Hernandez, Fred Woodward, Ernest Dorling and Tommy Pritchard

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Decided September 23, 1986No. 86-8258PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Non-Argument Calendar.

1Per curiam

This appeal presents the issue of whether law enforcement officers, who allegedly detained plaintiff for two hours and forty-five minutes without probable cause while searching for evidence pursuant to a search warrant, are entitled to qualified immunity because they did not violate a clearly established constitutional right of the plaintiff. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants on immunity grounds, and we affirm.

On June 13, 1985, a United States magistrate issued a federal search warrant authorizing a search of the premises of S.W. Daniel, Inc. (“S.W.D.”) for certain…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Harlow v. FitzgeraldSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  3. Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of NarcoticsSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Adams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  5. Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979

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3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Liston v. County of RiversideCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1997
  2. Post v. City of Fort LauderdaleCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1993
  3. Daniel J. Leveto v. Robert A. LapinaCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2001
  4. Barts v. JoynerCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
  5. Post v. City of Fort LauderdaleCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1993

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