{"id":44785,"date":"2020-08-01T05:45:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T10:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44785"},"modified":"2020-08-01T05:45:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T10:45:58","slug":"ca7-violation-of-police-dept-regulations-cant-reasonably-be-a-%c2%a7-1983-claim-or-4a-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=44785","title":{"rendered":"CA7: Violation of police dept regulations can\u2019t reasonably be a \u00a7 1983 claim or 4A violation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Violation of department violations can\u2019t reasonably be a \u00a7 1983 claim or violation of the Fourth Amendment. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&amp;Path=Y2020\/D07-31\/C:19-2837:J:Barrett:aut:T:fnOp:N:2556163:S:0\">Estate of Biegert v. Molitor<\/a>, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 24211 (7th Cir. July 31, 2020):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The estate also emphasizes that the officers violated police department regulations and that these violations bear on the officers&#8217; reasonableness. But the district court was correct to give no weight to these arguments. As we have previously stated, \u00a7 1983 &#8220;protects plaintiffs from constitutional violations, not violations of state laws or, in this case, departmental regulations and police practices.&#8221; Scott v. Edinburg, 346 F.3d 752, 760 (7th Cir. 2003). Policies and procedures do not shed light on the reasonableness of an officer&#8217;s behavior because, &#8220;even if they could be practicably assessed by a judge, [such policies] vary from place to place and from time to time,&#8221; and so &#8220;[w]e cannot accept that the search and seizure protections of the Fourth Amendment are so variable.&#8221; Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806, 815 (1996).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violation of department violations can\u2019t reasonably be a \u00a7 1983 claim or violation of the Fourth Amendment. Estate of Biegert v. Molitor, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 24211 (7th Cir. July 31, 2020):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-reasonableness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44785","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=44785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44786,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44785\/revisions\/44786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}