Wright v. Watson

ORDER

CLAY D. LAND, CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT JUDGE

We are all familiar with the English common-law maxim that “a man’s home is his castle.” And few of us would disagree with Justice Louis Brandeis’s observation that the right to be left alone is “the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.”1 In this case, law enforcement officials certainly did not leave Plaintiff Robert Wright alone. In fact, they invaded his castle. More precisely, they hovered over his rural home in a helicopter, saw what they believed to be a patch of marijuana on his neighbor’s…