Josh Williams v. Scott Decker

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Taking roughly thirty minutes to accomplish this investigation did not run afoul of the Fourth Amendment.” (collecting cases)
• addressing challenge, on direct appeal, regarding the authority of the senior district court judge who adjudicated the case below
• rejecting argument that district court judge lacked authority to adjudicate matter due to her status as senior district court judge
• allowing officers to hold a suspect for “thirty minutes” during a similar search
• “Rather than raise his hands as the officers instructed, Officer Decker saw Williams lean forward while keeping his hands concealed.”
• officers were entitled to qualified immunity where they arrested plaintiff based upon inaccurate information provided by dispatcher

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).