{"id":21325,"date":"2016-03-21T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21325"},"modified":"2016-03-20T06:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T11:02:50","slug":"s-d-n-y-amtrak-officers-are-railroad-police-under-new-york-law-and-subject-to-%c2%a7-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21325","title":{"rendered":"S.D.N.Y.: Amtrak officers are \u201crailroad police\u201d under New York law and subject to \u00a7 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak police are \u201crailroad police\u201d under New York law, and they are subject to \u00a7 1983. (Fourth Amendment claim dismissed; other claims survive.) Chunn v. Amtrak, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 176987 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 6, 2015), adopted 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34506 (S.D.N.Y. March 17, 2016).<\/p>\n<p>Officers had probable cause to believe that plaintiff was a mental health danger to himself or others and that a mental commitment might be in order. A confrontation ensued and plaintiff was Tased. Summary judgment was properly granted the officers for qualified immunity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/16a0144n-06.pdf\">Zucker v. City of Farmington Hills<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 4895 (6th Cir. March 14, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak police are \u201crailroad police\u201d under New York law, and they are subject to \u00a7 1983. (Fourth Amendment claim dismissed; other claims survive.) Chunn v. Amtrak, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 176987 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 6, 2015), adopted 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21325\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21326,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21325\/revisions\/21326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}