Richard Manriquez v. Joel Ensley

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

RICHARD MANRIQUEZ, No. 20-16917 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 2:18-cv-02026-

DWL

JOEL CHRISTIAN ENSLEY; BRYAN

LAWRENCE,

Defendants-Appellants, OPINION

and

TOWN OF SUPERIOR, a political subdivision; RICHARD H. MUELLER;

ANTHONY DORAN,

Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Dominic Lanza, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted November 10, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed August 30, 2022 Before: Daniel P. Collins and Kenneth K. Lee, Circuit Judges, and Jill Otake, * District Judge.

Opinion by Judge Lee; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge Otake

SUMMARY **

Civil Rights

The panel reversed the district court’s denial of qualified immunity to police officers in an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that the officers violated the Fourth Amendment when they expanded the scope of a search warrant without physically amending the warrant.

The police officers at first complied with the requirement that a warrant include a description of the “place to be searched,” by…