United States Fifth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging an illegal SWAT team raid on Plaintiffs' bar, the denial of qualified immunity to Defendant-Officers is affirmed, where the alleged search lacked a warrant, was unreasonably violent, and was not justified by state statutes permitting administrative inspections.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/06/2009
• Published 05/06/2009

Judges

• KING, Circuit Judge:, Before KING, BENAVIDES and CLEMENT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Perry R. Sanders, Jr., Robert John Frank, (argued), Sanders, Jones & Frank, LLC, Colorado Springs, CO, William L. Goode, The Goode Law Firm, Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees., John F. Weeks, II (argued), Usry, Weeks & Matthews, New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.