{"id":24038,"date":"2016-10-11T16:28:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T21:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24038"},"modified":"2016-10-11T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T21:33:24","slug":"scotus-grants-cert-in-hernandez-v-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24038","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS grants cert. in Hern\u00e1ndez v. Mesa&#8211;cross border killing of teenager by Border Patrol officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hern\u00e1ndez v. Mesa, cert. granted Oct. 11, 2016 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/case-files\/cases\/hernandez-v-mesa\/\">SCOTUSBlog<\/a>): Issue: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(1) Whether a formalist or functionalist analysis governs the extraterritorial application of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s prohibition on unjustified deadly force, as applied to a cross-border shooting of an unarmed Mexican citizen in an enclosed area controlled by the United States; (2) whether qualified immunity may be granted or denied based on facts \u2013 such as the victim\u2019s legal status \u2013 unknown to the officer at the time of the incident; and (3) whether the claim in this case may be asserted under Bivens v. Six Unknown Federal Narcotics Agents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CA5 opinion posted here: <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16952\">CA5 en banc: Border Patrol agent\u2019s shooting of unarmed teenager across border gets qualified immunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hern\u00e1ndez v. Mesa, cert. granted Oct. 11, 2016 (SCOTUSBlog): Issue: (1) Whether a formalist or functionalist analysis governs the extraterritorial application of the Fourth Amendment\u2019s prohibition on unjustified deadly force, as applied to a cross-border shooting of an unarmed Mexican &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24038\">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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038","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=24038"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24042,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24038\/revisions\/24042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}