Willie D. White, Jr. v. Rick Olig, James M. Gilmore, and Fond Du Lac County, a Municipal Corporation

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• holding that a height difference of five 26 inches and race confusion did not invalidate the arrest
• holding that “failure to follow procedures mandated by state but not federal law . . . can only establish a state law violation” and “are not remediable under Section 1983”
• holding 22 that a height difference of five inches and race confusion did not invalidate the arrest
• “[F]ailure to follow procedures mandated by state but not federal law . . . can only establish a state law violation.”
• in case of mistaken identity, warrant correctly naming person to be arrested was facially valid
• “It is therefore a truism, reiterated many times by this court, that mere allegations of state law infraction are insufficient to support a Section 1983 claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).