Legal Opinion
McCabe v. Life-Line Ambulance Service, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 29, 1996No. 95-1731PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal by the City of Lynn (“City”), we consider whether an established City policy, permitting forcible, warrantless entries of private residences to enforce involuntary civil commitment orders, violates the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The district court granted summary judgment for plaintiff Mary McCabe, admin-istratrix of the estate of Ruchla Zinger, a Holocaust survivor who died in her Lynn home during a tragic attempt by City police to execute an involuntary commitment order which had been issued against her. For the reasons discussed in…
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