Legal Opinion
Binti Watts and Christopher Pryor v. County of Sacramento, a Municipal Corporation Lorie Timberlake Bryan Munn Donald Black and Jeffrey Morace
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 16, 2001No. 00-15099PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs Binti Watts and Christopher Pryor sued the County of Sacramento, and Sheriffs Deputies Jeffrey Morace, Lorie Timberlake, Donald Black, and Sergeant Bryan Munn for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for the unlawful entry of their home pursuant to an arrest warrant and their wrongful arrest and detention until the officers discovered that Pryor was not the murder suspect named in the warrant. The district court granted the defendants summary adjudication of the Fourth Amendment unlawful entry and detention claims and dismissed state tort claims for false arrest…
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