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HOPKINS v. BONVICINO

No. 07-15102.

573 F.3d 752 (2009)

Bruce HOPKINS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. A. BONVICINO, Badge No. 1140, individually & in his official capacity as a San Carlos Police Officer; David Buelow individually & in his official capacity as a San Carlos Police Officer; Nick Nguyen, Badge No. 1141, individually in his official capacity as a San Carlos Police Officer; City of San Carlos, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 16, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony Boskovich, Boskovich Law Office, San Jose, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Todd H. Master, Howard Rome Martin & Ridley, Redwood City, CA, for the defendants-appellants.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER, D.W. NELSON, and STEPHEN REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

On August 22, 2003, two San Carlos Police Officers broke into Bruce Hopkins' home. They did not have a warrant, nor did they have probable cause. All that they had was a statement from a third-party that Hopkins had been involved in an extremely minor traffic incident, an incident so minor that it did not cause as much as a scratch on either of the vehicles involved, and that he appeared to have been drinking. Based on this information, the...

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