Lost Dog

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Animal control officers are entitled to qualified immunity individually in a dispute brought by a dog owner who claims the officers violated his due process rights when they put his German shepherd puppy up for adoption and spayed it without scanning it for a microchip, the Eighth Circuit <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/lostdog.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a>. </span>

ST. LOUIS – Animal-control officers are entitled to qualified immunity individually in a dispute brought by a dog owner who claims the officers violated his due process rights when they put his German shepherd puppy up for adoption and spayed it without scanning it for a microchip, the Eighth Circuit ruled .

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