Legal Opinion
Klein v. Madison
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 10, 2019No. CIVIL ACTION NO. 17-4507PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, District Judge.
*400In the middle of the night on May 2, 2016, the plaintiff heard a knock at her door. Answering the door in her pajamas, she found several City of Allentown police officers seeking information about her son's whereabouts and requesting permission to search her home without a warrant. The plaintiff flatly refused and attempted to close her door and end the encounter. What happened next is disputed by the parties. The plaintiff argues that two officers proceeded to violently pull her from her doorway, throw her over a railing, handcuff her, and drag her to a police car. The…
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