{"id":61534,"date":"2025-07-23T14:29:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61534"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:40:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:40:45","slug":"ca8-a-state-police-officer-a-part-of-a-federal-task-force-could-lie-to-cause-an-arrest-to-protect-a-federal-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61534","title":{"rendered":"CA8: A state police officer, a part of a federal task force, could lie to cause an arrest to protect a federal witness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWe have decided this question before: \u2018whether a St. Paul police officer acted under color of state law when she allegedly lied to protect a federal witness while serving on a federal task force.\u2019 Yassin v. Weyker, 39 F.4th 1086, 1087 (8th Cir. 2022). Our answer, once again, is she did not. See id.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/25\/07\/241875P.pdf\">Mohamud v. Weyker<\/a>, No. 24-1875 (8th Cir. July 23, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Aurora housing inspection code is not unconstitutional on its face for attempting inspections. If they\u2019re refused, the city has to seek other remedies, which could include inspection warrants. DPH Aurora Props., LLC v. City of Aurora, 2025 IL App (2d) 240540 (July 22, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A negligent failure to train claim under \u00a7 1983 doesn\u2019t state a Fourth Amendment claim because intentional acts are required. Kristiansen v. United States, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139782 (D. Or. July 22, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have decided this question before: \u2018whether a St. Paul police officer acted under color of state law when she allegedly lied to protect a federal witness while serving on a federal task force.\u2019 Yassin v. Weyker, 39 F.4th 1086, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=61534\">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":[45,9,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-administrative-search","category-arrest-or-entry-on-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61534","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=61534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61536,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61534\/revisions\/61536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}