Legal Opinion
Bates v. Harvey
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 4, 2008No. 07-10570PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILSON, Circuit Judge:
Lee Harvey, a deputy sheriff with the Pike County, Georgia Sheriffs Department (“Deputy Harvey”), appeals the denial of his motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. In her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit, Plaintiff D’Anna Bates (“Mrs. Bates”) claims that Deputy Harvey falsely arrested her after entering her home without a warrant to search for the subject of a civil commitment order, in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. 1 The district court concluded that Deputy Harvey was not entitled to qualified immunity because Mrs. Bates established that…
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