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· 5/18/2015

City and County of San Francisco v. Sheehan

Citations

  • 575 U.S. 600
  • 135 S. Ct. 1765
  • 191 L. Ed. 2d 856
  • 2015 U.S. LEXIS 3200
  • 83 U.S.L.W. 4303
  • 25 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 254

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that homeowner’s consent to search was not rendered involuntary when police officer confronted her with separation from her small'child
  • holding that “deadly force was justified” where a woman charged officers with a knife
  • explaining that “[o]nly public entities are subject to Title Il” of the ADA
  • granting cert. to decide the issue but then dismiss- ing it as improvidently granted after San Francisco changed its argument
  • requiring that law be “sufficiently definite that any reasonable official in [the defendant’s] shoes would have understood that he was violating it, meaning that the existing precedent . . . placed the statutory or constitutional questions beyond debate” (internal quotation marks omitted
  • dismissing writ of certiorari as improvidently granted where adverse party abandoned the position it took in the lower court; noting that the question presented \would benefit from briefing and an adversary presentation\

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