Legal Opinion
Mahnke v. Garrigan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 13, 2011No. 10-2783PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
A deputy sheriff seized five horses from a farm in Columbia County, Wisconsin, on suspicion of animal neglect. One of the horses, a 32-year-old mare named April, had been left in the care of the horse farm by its owner, Kelly Mahnke. The county eventually returned the mare, and Mahnke’s objection to reimbursing the county’s boarding expenses ultimately was resolved in her favor by a state appellate *632court, which held that the seizure was unlawful. Mahnke then sued the deputy sheriff in federal court, contending that the seizure violated her constitutional rights. Without ruling on the…
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