United States Tenth Circuit

The Fourth Amendment may apply to the planning of an arrest by law enforcement officials and to the decision to employ a SWAT team to make an arrest on a misdemeanor warrant, but plaintiff must show the officers intended to cause harm to defeat qualified immunity claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/19/2001
• Published 10/19/2001

Judges

• JENKINS, Senior District Judge., Before HENRY and BRISCOE, Circuit Judges;  and JENKINS, Senior District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Theodore S. Halaby (Sue Ann Haskell, with him on the brief) of Halaby, Cross & Schluter, Denver, CO, for Defendants-Appellants., William E. Zimsky, of Abadie & Zimsky, LLC, Durango, CO, for the Plaintiffs-Appellees.