{"id":65015,"date":"2026-10-15T09:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65015"},"modified":"2026-10-15T09:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:34:33","slug":"ca8-judge-gets-no-qualified-or-judicial-immunity-for-locking-up-children-who-didnt-want-to-go-with-a-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65015","title":{"rendered":"CA8: Judge gets no qualified or judicial immunity for locking up children who didn&#8217;t want to go with a parent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A judge gets no qualified or judicial immunity for ordering children locked up for refusing to leave court with a parent they didn\u2019t want to go with. In a prior appeal, \u201cthe children were beyond his contempt power and \u2018judges do not do double duty as jailers.\u2019\u201d Rockett, 71 F.4th at 672.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/26\/10\/251664P.pdf\">Rockett v. Eighmy<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 31078 (8th Cir. Oct. 13, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alleged false statement here isn\u2019t material. There was plenty of probable cause. United States v. Aponte, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 231282 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 8, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if this stop was pretextual based on an anonymous call, there was a factual basis for it, so it was valid. Twelve minutes into the stop defendant fled and took the officers on a high speed chase. It was not unreasonably prolonged under Rodriguez. United States v. Perez, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 232442 (D. Vt. Oct. 8, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge gets no qualified or judicial immunity for ordering children locked up for refusing to leave court with a parent they didn\u2019t want to go with. In a prior appeal, \u201cthe children were beyond his contempt power and \u2018judges &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=65015\">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":[21,86,40,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-pretext","category-qualified-immunity","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65015","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=65015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65016,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65015\/revisions\/65016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}