Charlene Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit

RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

This second appeal of an action that has travelled to the Supreme Court concerns an adverse summary judgment on § 1983 unreasonable search and seizure claims, with the issues here focusing primarily on discovery and summary judgment procedure, rather than the merits. (The one exception is whether the detection of odors associated with drug production furnished probable cause for two search warrants.) Once the procedural morass is sorted out, it is most obvious that summary judgment, as well as the preliminary steps by the district court to dispose of all…