1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.3d
  4. 567 F.3d
  5. 567 F.3d 944 (2009)
 

SERNA v. GOODNO

No. 05-3441.

567 F.3d 944 (2009)

Luis A. SERNA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kevin GOODNO; Jerry Zimmerman, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: June 3, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine H. Purdy, argued, St. Louis, MO (D. Bruce La Pierre, Wash. U. School of Law and K. Lee Marshall, Bryan Cave LLP, Matthew J. Mailloux, Elizabeth A. Peters, Ashley E. Tremain, Jonathan D. Van Duren and Drew H. Yaeger, on the brief), for appellant.

Barbara E. Berg Windels, AAG, argued, St. Paul, MN, for appellee.

Before MELLOY, BOWMAN, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

Luis A. Serna is an involuntarily civilly committed "sexually dangerous person" currently detained as part of the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (the "Program")1 at a treatment facility in Moose Lake, Minnesota. Staff at Moose Lake discovered a cell-phone case in a common area, considered cell phones to be security and treatment risks, and began to search for a suspected contraband phone. They first searched the...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases