· 9/23/1977
City of Nome v. Ailak
Citations
- 570 P.2d 162
- 1977 Alas. LEXIS 534
How courts have described this case
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- holding that police officers' \reasonable belief as to the existence of an emergency\ justified unauthorized home entry and protected officers from liability for trespass
- holding that police officers’ “reasonable belief as to the existence of an emergency” justified unauthorized home entry and protected officers from liability for trespass
- holding that police officers could not be liable for trespass because they \had a reasonable belief as to the existence of an emergency which justified their unauthorized entry\
- holding that police officers could not be liable for trespass because they “had a reasonable belief as to the existence of an emergency which justified their unauthorized entry”
- noting that any good faith defense to false arrest claim must have an objective component
- indicating that jury instructions which set forth an entirely erroneous standard of liability would normally be considered to be plain error, where the result of the case might have been altered by the improper statements
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Judges: Boochever, Rabinow-Itz, Connor, Burke, Dimond, Tern
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