Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that \there is no evidence\ of any standardized policy or practice governing the opening of closed containers
• holding that a closed container “may only be opened as part of the inventory process if there is in existence a standardized policy or practice specifically governing the opening of such containers”
• concluding that the opening of a closed container during an inventory search was unlawful, because the state did not meet its burden of establishing the existence of a standardized policy or practice governing the opening of such containers
• areas of an automobile that are normally part of an inventory search are the “interior, trunk, glove box, etc.”
• areas of an automobile that are normally part of an inventory search are the “interior, trunk, glove box, etc.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).