Colorado Housing Advocates Get New Chance at Illegal Search Case

A Colorado woman and a nonprofit groups that participated in a 2021 housing rights march in Colorado Springs, Colo., got a second chance Tuesday to sue the city and its police officers for obtaining allegedly overbroad warrants for their electronically stored data.

Qualified immunity didn’t protect the city’s officers from liability under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for violating the Fourth Amendment with respect to warrants that allowed them to search for and seize information stored on Jacqueline Armendariz’s electronic devices, though they couldn’t be held liable for having obtained a warrant allowing them to seize the devices themselves, the US Court ...