On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided Kovacic v. Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services. The panel consisted of Judges Boggs, Moore and Sutton. The panel split on the question of qualified immunity for social workers who removed children from their mother’s home. (You know where this is going, […]
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Cert. grant in Millender v. LA: Qualified immunity for an unconstitutional general warrant to seize firearms?
By David Kopel on July 10, 2011 6:00 pm in Constitutional Law, Fourth Amendment, Guns, Qualified Immunity, Sovereign Immunity
The Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Millender v. Los Angeles. Here are the background facts: Bowen shoots at his ex-girlfriend with a sawed-off shotgun. The police obtain a search warrant for the home of Bowen’s 73-year-old former foster mother. The warrant application does not disclose that Bowen last lived with his foster mother 15 […]