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Rush v. City of Mansfield, No. 1:07-CV-1068 (N.D.Ohio) (771 F.Supp.2d 827) (February 11, 2011) (Judge Kathleen M. O'Malley)

Loaded on Sept. 19, 2011 published in Punch and Jurists September 19, 2011
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, SWAT Teams.

Here the Court held that the use of a secretive, private SWAT-type organization to execute a search warrant against a minor suspected of a petty crime was constitutionally unreasonable; and it denied qualified immunity to a number of the defendants.

This is an astonishing case about the growing militarization of ...

 

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