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Atwater and her husband, Michael Haas, an emergency room physician at a local hospital, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 with Charles Lincoln being the lawyer who launched the case, alleging that the city violated her Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures by arresting her for a crime whose only punishment was a fine.