{"id":64009,"date":"2026-05-06T10:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64009"},"modified":"2026-05-06T10:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:52:55","slug":"n-d-cal-collateral-estoppel-bars-relitigation-in-federal-court-of-4a-claim-lost-in-state-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64009","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Cal.: Collateral estoppel bars relitigation in federal court of 4A claim lost in state court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plaintiff fully litigated his Fourth Amendment claim in state court and lost. Collateral estoppel bars him from pursuing a federal claim for the same thing. Pelton v. Amador, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98995 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 24, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant faults defense counsel for pursuing a meritless motion to suppress he insisted on causing him to forfeit a favorable plea offer. No IAC. State v. Tate, 2026-Ohio-1636 (5th Dist. May 5, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That Dropbox reports child porn in its system doesn\u2019t make it a government actor for the Fourth Amendment. United States v. Blocker, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 13026 (7th Cir. May 5, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer knew defendant from long before, and he has a reasonable belief defendant was driving his car while a probation and parole warrant was out for him. United States v. Rodriguez, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99220 (D. Mont. May 5, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff fully litigated his Fourth Amendment claim in state court and lost. Collateral estoppel bars him from pursuing a federal claim for the same thing. Pelton v. Amador, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98995 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 24, 2026). Defendant faults &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64009\">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":[24,23,126,35,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-ineffective-assistance","category-issue-preclusion","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64009","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=64009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64010,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64009\/revisions\/64010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}