Wayne King v. Charles Beavers

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Wayne King filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Deputy Sheriff Charles Beavers, alleging that Beavers violated King’s Fourteenth Amendment right to liberty in enforcing a guardianship order. Beavers appeals the district court’s denial of his motion for summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds. We reverse.

I

To review the denial of a pretrial qualified immunity motion, we accept as true the facts alleged by King, the non-moving party. See Jackson v. Everett, 140 F.3d 1149, 1151 (8th Cir.1998). In November 1995, Wayne King was seventy-seven years old. He lived…