Fourth Amendment

In <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Fourth-Amendment.pdf"><strong>a bizarre ruling</strong></a>, the Ninth Circuit affirmed qualified immunity for the City of Fresno and three police officers, because even if they did <strong><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/only-9th-circuit-sympathy-in-case-of-missing-cop-seizure/">steal $100,000 worth of plaintiffs’ property</a></strong> after seizing it with a warrant, “it is not clear whether the theft of property seized pursuant to the warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.”

SAN FRANCISCO — Affirming qualified immunity for the city of Fresno and three police officers in a bizarre ruling , the Ninth Circuit said that, even if the officers did steal $100,000 worth of plaintiffs’ property after seizing it with a warrant, “it is not clear whether the theft of property seized pursuant to the warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.”

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