{"id":61794,"date":"2025-08-30T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61794"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T14:14:20","slug":"w-d-wis-%c2%a7-1983-search-claim-producing-4000-damages-verdict-supported-84690-in-attorneys-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61794","title":{"rendered":"W.D.Wis.: \u00a7 1983 search claim producing $4,000 damages verdict supported $84,690 in attorneys fees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s \u00a7 1983 search claim produced a damages verdict for $500 compensatory and $3500 punitive. The attorney\u2019s fees award of $84,690.00 is granted. Pfalzgraf v. Reisner, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168405 (W.D. Wis. Aug. 28, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cracked windshield and tinted windows justified the stop. United States v. Watts, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168522 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 29, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stop and search of the car were justified. The strip search at the station house likely wasn\u2019t, but the officers get qualified immunity for that. Beatty v. Gardner, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168429 (M.D. Pa. Aug. 29, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tasing defendant during his arrest for noncompliance with officers after a traffic stop was not unreasonable considering the scene was chaotic. People v. Ford, 2025 Mich. App. LEXIS 7002 (Aug. 28, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff\u2019s \u00a7 1983 search claim produced a damages verdict for $500 compensatory and $3500 punitive. The attorney\u2019s fees award of $84,690.00 is granted. Pfalzgraf v. Reisner, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168405 (W.D. Wis. Aug. 28, 2025). Cracked windshield and tinted &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61794\">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":[45,52,40,35,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-strip-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61794","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=61794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61795,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61794\/revisions\/61795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}