Dunn v. City of Elgin, Illinois
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CA7: Drug court staffers’ making arrests outside courthouse may have violated state law but were reasonable under 4A
Law Offices of John Wesley HallJuly 4, 2018Hoffman v. Knoebel, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 18125 (7th Cir. July 3, 2018):Where, as here, the defendants have conceded that a seizure occurred, the only question is whether the “seizure was unreasonable.” Dunn v. City of Elgin, 347 F.3d 641, 648 (7th Cir. 2003). Campbell, Taylor, and Bennett argue that their arrests were unreasonable because Knoebel and Snelling acted without any state-law authority.