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NY Police Immune for Taking Disabled Woman to Hospital

Police officers made a warrantless entry to a residence based on a 911 call
and found a woman with Down syndrome there alone; they took her to a mental
hospital, where she was kept overnight.

The police officers were entitled to qualified immunity on the Fourth
Amendment claim. At 138: …

 

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