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Unpublished Decisions; One Results in Remand on Fourth Amendment Civil Rights Claim

By Shari Allison

Edge v. Payne, August 20, 2009, No. 08-7122: Plaintiff filed suit against a dead judge, another judge, the county clerk, court reporter, court secretary, DA, a bunch of ADAs, the sheriff, undersheriff, various deputy sheriffs, several ATF agents, an unnamed Highway Patrol officer, and 25 "DOES" for good measure, in short, everyone remotely involved in his contentious divorce and subsequent criminal proceedings when he was convicted of possessing a firearm while under a protective order. He alleged various constitutional violations against the defendants, basically complaining that they were all engaged in a conspiracy against him. He separately alleged that his Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his property was searched and the search turned up the gun that resulted in the federal prosecution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on August 25, 2009 (boomark / email).