{"id":7441,"date":"2014-04-04T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/?p=7441"},"modified":"2014-04-05T00:54:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T07:54:44","slug":"district-court-dismisses-complaint-in-mocek-v-albuquerque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/2014\/04\/04\/district-court-dismisses-complaint-in-mocek-v-albuquerque\/","title":{"rendered":"District Court dismisses complaint in Mocek v. Albuquerque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judge James O. Browning of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/gov.uscourts.nmd.241067\/gov.uscourts.nmd.241067.74.0.pdf\">dismissed<\/a> Phillip Mocek&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papersplease.org\/wp\/mocek2\/\">complaints<\/a> against the city of Albuquerque, the Albuquerque Police Department, and the individual Albuquerque police officers who falsely arrested him (at the behest of the TSA) in 2009 at a TSA checkpoint at the Albuquerque <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabq.gov\/airport\/\">Sunport<\/a>, improperly seized and tried to delete his digital recordings that provided the best evidence of their misconduct, and filed false reports about what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mocek had arrived at the airport with a valid ticket but without any government-issued ID credentials. He was trying to exercise his right to travel through a public facility and by common carrier, and to document the process of flying without showing government-issued ID credentials. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.papersplease.org\/wp\/mocek2\/\">More about Mocek v. Albuquerque et al.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mocek has until April 29, 2014, to decide whether to appeal any or all of  the District Court\u2019s rulings to the U.S. Court of Appeals  for the 10th Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have more to say about the District Court&#8217;s latest decision once Mr. Mocek decides whether to appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge James O. Browning of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico has dismissed Phillip Mocek&#8217;s complaints against the city of Albuquerque, the Albuquerque Police Department, and the individual Albuquerque police officers who falsely arrested him (at the behest of the TSA) in 2009 at a TSA checkpoint at the Albuquerque Sunport, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7441"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7441\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersplease.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}