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• Position: Pretrial Detention - Chortek v. City of Milwaukee, 356 F.3d 740 - Brief Article

Chortek v. City of Milwaukee, 356 F.3d 740 (7th Cir. 2004). Arrestees brought a [section] 1983 action alleging that their arrests for violating a ticket-scalping ordinance was a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights. The district court entered judgment in favor of the defendants and the appeals court affirmed. The appeals court held that the arrests were reasonable under the Fourth Amendment and that the length of detention, from three to fourteen hours, was reasonable. The court noted that the arrests were humiliating, that the arrestees were held in a police vehicle until one-half hour after the start time for the event, that they were subjected to body cavity searches, prevented from making phone...