Fourth Amendment Rights Violation

By: Derek Hawkins//July 6, 2017//

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7^th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Don Meadows v. Rockford Housing Authority

Case No.: 15-3897

Officials: WOOD, Chief Judge, and RIPPLE and SYKES, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Fourth Amendment Rights Violation

Don Meadows alleges that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when an administrator at the Rockford Housing Authority (“RHA”) ordered the locks on his apartment changed. We must determine whether the employees of a private security company, who carried out

that order, are entitled to qualified immunity. The district court concluded that they are. We agree and thus affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment for the defend- ants.

Affirmed

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Attorney Derek A. Hawkins is the managing partner at Hawkins Law Offices LLC, where he heads up the firm’s startup law practice. He specializes in business formation, corporate governance, intellectual property protection, private equity and venture capital funding and mergers & acquisitions. Check out the website at www.hawkins-lawoffices.com or contact them at 262-737-8825.

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