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Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
Whittier v. Kobayashi, No. 08-12998
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In an action claiming that defendant-officer violated plaintiff's son's Fourth Amendment rights when he entered her home without first knocking and announcing the SWAT team's presence, a denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is reversed where a reasonable officer could have had reasonable suspicion that knocking and announcing his presence would have been dangerous under the circumstances facing the SWAT team.
Read Whittier v. Kobayashi, No. 08-12998
Appellate Information
Filed on August 31, 2009
Judges
Per Curiam
