Police Immune From Security Firm’s Suit Over Suspended License

Two Delaware state police officers are immune from a due process suit brought by a security firm claiming that they improperly suspended its license without a hearing, the Third Circuit said Friday in a reversal.

International Security LLC alleged the police officers had no cause to invoke the emergency exception to the notice and hearing requirements of the state’s Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies Act.

The court previously ruled that qualified immunity was inapplicable to the officers, but that holding was based solely on the allegations in the complaint, said Judge Cheryl Ann Krause. Now that the record was ...