Swint v. City Of Wadley

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the district court erred in denying” summary judgment to a law enforcement officer when such evidence had not been presented
• holding that there was not arguable probable cause to conduct extensive searches on night club and its patrons, where only evidence was of one patron selling drugs
• denying qualified immunity to officers who searched and seized (but did not arrest
• \`[L]iability may be imposed due to the existence of an improper policy or from the absence of a policy.'\
• “[w]hen a law enforcement officer seeks summary judgment on the basis of qualified immunity, we must only ask whether ... there was arguable probable cause”
• section 1983 requires an affirmative causal connection between an official's acts and the alleged constitutional deprivation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).