# Dennis Wolfel v. Nick Sanborn

> Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · October 20, 1982 · 691 F.2d 270

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9469833

## Case

- **Full name:** Dennis WOLFEL, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Nick SANBORN, Et Al., Defendants-Appellants
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- **Decided:** October 20, 1982
- **Citations:** 691 F.2d 270; 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 24680
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Weick
- **Judges:** Edwards, Weick, Phillips
- **Cited by:** 23 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding that parole officers are entitled to only qualified immunity for arresting and imprisoning parolee for 27 days without holding a preliminary hearing to determine probable cause

## Opinion text

WEICK, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring in part:
I concur in all of the opinion of the panel except that portion which remands to the district court for reconsideration of the motion of the parole officers for summary judgment.
In my opinion, under the decision of the Supreme Court in Harlow, Butz and Scheuer v. Rhodes, 416 U.S. 232 , 94 S.Ct. 1683 , 40 L.Ed.2d 90 (1974), the parole officers were entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law and the district judge erred in not granting their motion for summary judgment. We should now enter the judgment which the district court should have entered and grant their motion for summary judgment and assess the costs against plaintiff-appellee. It is time that this prolonged litigation be brought to a close as it has no merit.

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