MORRIS v. TOWN OF LEXINGTON ALABAMA

No. 13-10434.

748 F.3d 1316 (2014)

Jerry MORRIS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TOWN OF LEXINGTON ALABAMA, et al., Defendants, Mark Bowers, Lee Bradford, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 21, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry F. Sherrod, III , Henry F. Sherrod III, PC, Florence, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

David J. Canupp , George W. Royer, Jr. , Lanier Ford Shaver & Payne, PC, Luther Franklin Corley, IV , Sirote & Permutt, PC, Huntsville, AL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before TJOFLAT and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and BUCKLEW, District Judge.


TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

In this case, police officers entered a residence without a warrant. The owner of the residence told them to leave, but they refused. When the officers detained the owner, he punched one of them. He was arrested for assaulting a police officer and taken into custody.

The owner, claiming that the officers' conduct in entering his house without a warrant and then arresting him for punching the officer infringed his rights under the Fourth...

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