Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals at the Thomas F. Eagleton Courthouse on 111 South 10th Street, St. Louis. Credit: Google 8th Circ. Denies Qualified Immunity to Police Officers Who Stopped Man Over Illegible Temporary Tag
"Nor can a driver rightly be held responsible for ambient conditions that render a tag illegible," wrote a unanimous panel of Eighth Circuit judges in the Fourth Amendment search and seizure case.
October 06, 2022 at 02:14 PM
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Constitutional Law
A federal appeals court has denied qualified immunity to three Des Moines, Iowa, police officers who were found liable for violating a man's constitutional rights after stopping his car based largely on having difficulty reading his temporary license plate tag.
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