Paul Knox v. Deborah Smith

KANNE, Circuit Judge.

During the spring of 1999, Paul Knox was arrested twice, once in April and once in May, for violating the terms of his mandatory supervised release (MSR) agreement with the Illinois Prisoner Review Board. Knox filed this suit against his parole officer, Deborah Smith, 1 under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that both arrests violated his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable seizures. Smith moved for summary judgment on both claims on grounds of qualified immunity. The district court granted Smith’s summary judgment on the claim arising from the April arrest, but…