United States Fifth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants, a city, a police chief and a detective, on plaintiff's claims brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 arising out of a massive law enforcement search for a serial killer in Louisiana is vacated in part where the district court erred in finding that a seizure warrant for plaintiff's DNA submitted by defendant-detective to a judge was supported by probable cause, but the judgment is otherwise affirmed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2006
• Published 11/21/2006

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before GARZA, DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Dennis R. Whalen (argued), Baton Rouge, LA, for Kohler., Marc S. Rotenberg (argued), Marcia Hofmann, Elec. Info. Ctr., Washington, DC, for Elec. Privacy Info. Ctr., Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Leslie Hilburn (argued), Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendants-Appellees.