Youngbey, et al. v. March, et al., No. 11-7033 (D.C. Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CasePlaintiffs brought an action arising under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against a number of MPD law enforcement personnel, asserting, inter alia, that various officers and their supervisors violated plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights by planning and conducting a 4:00 a.m. search on a warrant that did not authorize a nighttime search and breaking and entering into plaintiffs' home without knocking and announcing their presence. At issue on appeal was whether the district court erred in denying defendants qualified immunity on the knock-and-announce and nighttime search claims. The court agreed that defendants were entitled to qualified immunity because neither their no-knock entry of plaintiffs' home nor their nighttime search violated clearly established law. Therefore, the court reversed and remanded.
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