Cook v. Gibbons

Carl Cook filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against thirty-four individuals, most of whom were members of an Arkansas State Police (ASP) SWAT team or the Fifth Judicial Drug Task Force (DTF), and he claimed, in relevant part, that they used excessive and unreasonable force in *28the execution of a no-knock search warrant at his home on July 13, 1999, needlessly and maliciously damaging his residence and personal property, in violation of his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. After the district court disposed of the parties’ motions for dismissal or summary judgment, ten…