{"id":33514,"date":"2018-06-22T06:12:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33514"},"modified":"2018-06-22T06:12:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:12:40","slug":"ca7-in-the-private-search-doctrine-and-qi-its-not-clearly-established-that-the-actors-knowing-each-other-isnt-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33514","title":{"rendered":"CA7: In the private search doctrine and QI, it&#8217;s not clearly established that the actors knowing each other isn&#8217;t enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut for purposes of official immunity, the question is whether existing law clearly establishes that a private search is treated as a governmental search when the public and private actors are friends and potential future coworkers.\u201d It does not. There has to be more. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&#038;Path=Y2018\/D06-20\/C:17-2053:J:Easterbrook:aut:T:fnOp:N:2173897:S:0\">Comsys, Inc. v. Pacetti<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 16672 (7th Cir. June 20, 2018):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But for purposes of official immunity, the question is whether existing law clearly establishes that a private search is treated as a governmental search when the public and private actors are friends and potential future coworkers.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs do not cite any decision clearly establishing such a rule; we could not find one on our own. To the contrary, established law sets up a multifactor balancing approach that asks just how entangled the public and private actions were. See, e.g., United States v. Crowley, 285 F.3d 553, 558 (7th Cir. 2002). As we&#8217;ve already observed, a claim that relies on multifactor balancing often does not identify a clearly established rule. The district court discussed several of the applicable factors when explaining why the record is not sufficiently developed to decide whether Kerkman was acting as Pacetti&#8217;s tool. That list of factors and uncertainties is why qualified immunity applies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut for purposes of official immunity, the question is whether existing law clearly establishes that a private search is treated as a governmental search when the public and private actors are friends and potential future coworkers.\u201d It does not. There &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=33514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-private-search","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33515,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33514\/revisions\/33515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}