KING v. BEAVERS

No. 97-3295.

148 F.3d 1031 (1998)

Wayne KING, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Charles BEAVERS, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph C. Ohm, Hot Springs, AR, argued, for defendant-appellant.

Shane Roughley, Fort Smith, AR, argued, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LOKEN and HANSEN, Circuit Judges, and DAVIS, District Judge.


LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Wayne King filed this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Deputy Sheriff Charles Beavers, alleging that Beavers violated King's Fourteenth Amendment right to liberty in enforcing a guardianship order. Beavers appeals the district court's denial of his motion for summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds. We reverse.

I.

To review the denial of a pretrial qualified immunity motion, we accept as true the facts alleged by...

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