Kelsey Joyce Dayton

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Tangled Arms: Modernizing and Unifying the Arm-of-the-State Doctrine
Kelsey Joyce Dayton
BA 2015, Stanford University; JD Candidate 2020, The University of Chicago Law School.

I would like to thank Professors Aziz Huq and William Baude for helping me turn my life interests and experiences into a legal question, as well as Parker Eudy, Parag Dharmavarapu, Peter Trombly, Jordan Golds, Kathy Bruce, and Will Admussen for their insights and persistent help. Special thanks to my grandma, Brenda Joyce Dayton, who edited my first childhood ramblings and inspired me to write more.

A police officer suspects someone of being an undocumented immigrant and detains them. Later, that individual sues the local police department in federal court for establishing a policy of hardline immigration enforcement that violated their Fourth Amendment rights.