Sean Branham v. Micro Computer Analysts, Inc.

OPINION

RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

While repairing Jacqueline Branham’s computer, Micro Computer Analysts, Inc. (MCA) employee Eric Lakes discovered what he believed to be files containing child pornography. Lakes contacted the local police to report what he had found. The police arrested Sean Branham, Jacqueline’s husband, approximately one year later. Two months thereafter, all charges were dropped.

Nearly one year after the charges were dropped and more than two years after Lakes contacted the police, the Branhams sued Lakes, MCA, and several governmental entities and officials in…