Betty Jackson, and Frank Ray Jackson v. Nicholas Pantazes Officer Allan Goldberg and Montgomery County, Md

HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff Betty Jackson filed this suit against bail bondsman Nicholas Pantazes and police officer Allan Goldberg under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Mrs. Jackson alleged that defendants caused personal injury and property damage when they forcibly entered her home in search of her son, Frank, who had failed to appear in court in two scheduled criminal cases. 1 The district court granted summary judgment for defendants. It ruled that Pantazes was not a state actor so as to render him liable under § 1983. It further ruled that Officer Goldberg did not instigate, and was not…