vehicle-impoundment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-268 City of Chicago, Illinois v. Marcella M. Mance Seventh Circuit 2022-09-21 Denied bankruptcy bankruptcy-avoidance circuit-split due-process impoundment judicial-lien ordinance-enforcement statutory-lien vehicle-impoundment Whether a lien that arises automatically by operation of an ordinance when a vehicle is impounded is a statutory lien, and not a judicial lien avoidab…
20-1745 Richard Sylvester v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied 4th-amendment burden-of-proof community-caretaking fourth-amendment investigatory-motive law-enforcement-procedure police-policy probable-cause subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances vehicle-impound vehicle-impoundment whether-vehicle-impound-complies-with-4th-amendment
20-7210 Tesfa Connell v. New York New York 2021-02-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely parked car
20-6740 Darnell Lewis Peak v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search pennsylvania-law police-procedure private-property vehicle-impoundment Whether the inventory search was illegal under 75 Pa.C.S. § 6309(a) as no public interest was threatened
20-5159 Kristopher Lee Roybal v. Minnesota Minnesota 2020-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search misrepresentation ncic-search procedural-due-process procedural-review vehicle-impoundment Is impoundment of a vehicle unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment?
19-6859 Michael A. Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Whether an officer with a motive to search for incriminating evidence may impound a vehicle and inventory its contents in contravention of the standar…
19-5915 Steven J. Varnauskas v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment license-plate probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-violation vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether a bicycle rack attached to the rear of a vehicle was stowed accordingly and correctly to the manufacturer's instructions and does not obscure …
19-5139 Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles
18-9131 Ryan Canfield v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory law-enforcement probable-cause public-safety reasonableness standardized-procedures vehicle-impoundment Must impoundment be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, or conducted pursuant to standardized procedures, or both?
18-1006 Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Michael-Kevin-Adams