Brown v. Whitman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that plaintiff, “who had the misfortune of being in her backyard at the time of the search,” was seized when she was bitten by a police dog who was off leash and searching for two suspected carjackers
• finding an intentional seizure where officer released dog into the plaintiff's backyard \to locate any suspects hiding there\
• finding an intentional seizure where officer released dog into the plaintiff’s backyard “to locate any suspects hiding there”
• finding an intentional seizure where officer released dog into the plaintiff’s backyard “to locate any suspects hiding there”
• finding an intentional seizure where officer released dog into the plaintiff’s backyard “to locate any suspects hiding there”
• “[E]ven though [plaintiff] was not the intended suspect, her freedom to leave was terminated by [the officer’s] intentional release of his police dog into her yard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).