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Texas Shootout

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Three bikers who were among 177 arrested after a 2015 shootout involving rival biker clubs in Waco, Texas, may pursue their Fourth Amendment claims against police and the former county district attorney, a federal court in Texas <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/wacoshootout.pdf"><strong>ruled</strong></a>. </span>

AUSTIN, Texas – Three bikers who were among 177 arrested after a 2015 shootout involving rival biker clubs in Waco, Texas, may pursue their Fourth Amendment claims against police and the former county district attorney, a federal court in Texas ruled .

The bikers say defendants improperly obtained arrest warrants based on a “fill-in-the-name affidavit that lacked probable cause.”

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