United States Ninth Circuit
HENDERSON v. CITY OF SIMI VALLEY, 01-55304
Police officers' entry into a residence was reasonable under the definitive special needs exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, where the officers act to enforce a domestic violence order.
Appellate Information
- Argued 03/04/2002
- Decided 09/24/2002
- Published 09/24/2002
Judges
- RAWLINSON, Circuit Judge., Before BROWNING, THOMAS and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Earnest C.S. Bell, Ventura, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.
- For Appellees:
- Martin R. Berman, Law Offices of James Aaron Pflaster, Los Angeles, CA, and David H. Hirsch, City Attorney for Simi Valley, Simi Valley, CA, for the defendants-appellees.