United States First Circuit

State troopers enjoyed qualified immunity in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action where objectively reasonable officers would not have known they were violating plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights by entering their home. Claims surrounding arrest of plaintiff and removal of children from a home were not actionable.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/22/2003
• Published 04/22/2003

Judges

• HOWARD, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, LIPEZ, and HOWARD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ferdinand A. Slater for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Melissa Reynolds O'Dea, Assistant Attorney General, with whom G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General and Paul Stern, Deputy Attorney General, were on brief for appellees.