{"id":4791,"date":"2010-10-18T22:53:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T18:05:26","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4791","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS cert grant: AG&#8217;s immunity for using material witness statute as a pretext for detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUS cert grant in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/Search.aspx?FileName=\/docketfiles\/10-98.htm\">10-98<\/a> (Kagan, J., recused). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/case-files\/cases\/ashcroft-v-al-kidd\/\">ScotusBlog here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2010\/10\/ashcroft-case-granted\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Questions presented:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Respondent was arrested on a material witness warrant issued by a federal magistrate judge under 18 U.S.C. 3144 in connection with a pending prosecution. He later filed a Bivens action against petitioner, the former Attorney General of the United States, seeking damages for his arrest.  Respondent alleged that his arrest resulted from a policy implemented by the former Attorney General of using the material witness statute as a &#8220;pretext&#8221; to investigate and preventively detain terrorism suspects. In addition, respondent alleged that the affidavit submitted in support of the warrant for his arrest contained false statements. <\/p>\n<p>The questions presented are:<\/p>\n<p>1. Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner absolute immunity from the pretext claim.<\/p>\n<p>2. Whether the court of appeals erred in denying petitioner qualified immunity from the pretext claim based on the conclusions that (a) the Fourth Amendment prohibits an officer from executing a valid material witness warrant with the subjective intent of conducting further investigation or preventively detaining the subject; and (b) this Fourth Amendment rule was clearly established at the time of respondent&#8217;s arrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4791\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}