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1287 REVIEW DENIED In the absence of exigent circumstances, the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits warrantless entry into a private home, so animal control officers who entered a home without a warrant for the purpose of impounding a dog that they had seen running at large in violation of leash laws may be liable for violation of the federal Civil Rights Act, trespass, conversion, negligence, invasion of privacy, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and violation of the California Constitution's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures.
CONWAY v PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY (Dog Arrest) 45 CA4 163 [See: US Const, AmIV; 42 USC 1983; Payton v New York 445 US 573]
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