Legal Opinion
Valance v. Gaylon Wisel, Mike Reneau, Ed Pearce
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 7, 1997No. 96-1870PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Valance 1 appeals the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of the six law enforcement officers he sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. His suit grows out of a traffic stop that occurred in Garrett, Indiana on May 28, 1995. Valance maintains that the officers violated his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments when they stopped his vehicle without probable cause and then detained him for the purpose of searching the vehicle. The district court concluded that the summary judgment record established probable cause for the stop and that the…
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