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231835P.pdf 03/21/2024 Michael Davitt v. Michael Krage
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 23-1835
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Erickson and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. Defendants were entitled to qualified immunity
for their actions in advising the Rochester police department that
plaintiff was a hotel guest and could be removed from his room without
violating an executive order protecting tenants from eviction; it was not
clearly established in June 2020 that someone in plaintiff's position - an
individual temporarily provided a motel room under an emergency pandemic
housing initiative - was a tenant with the right to remain in his room
without paying rent until the motel obtained an eviction order; in the
absence of clearly established law, the defendants were objectively
reasonable in determining plaintiff was a trespassing guest without the
property and due process rights of a tenant.