Legal Opinion

Harris v. O'Hare

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided October 30, 2014No. Docket No. 12-4350-cvPublishedCited by 58 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POOLER, Circuit Judge: •

Glenn Harris and his daughter K.H. (together, “Plaintiffs”) filed suit in 2008 against the City of Hartford and Hartford Police Officers JohnMichael O’Hare and Anthony Pia (together, “Defendants”), for damages stemming from the officers’ warrantless entry onto Harris’s property on December- 20, 2006. After entering the property, O’Hare shot and killed Seven, the family’s pet Saint Bernard, at close range and within earshot, if not in front of, Harris’s then-twelve-year-old daughter, K. During the entirety of the litigation leading up to trial, Defendants argued that…

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3Cited by58 opinions

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