· 6/3/1991
Gallardo v. Spohn Hospital
Citations
- 500 U.S. 957
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- stop deemed valid because police were “doing no more than they [were] legally permitted and objectively authorized to do”
- White, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari and arguing that the Court should “address this recurring issue and ... resolve the split in the Courts of Appeals”
- “it is irrelevant whether a reasonable police officer would have made the stop but for the unlawful motive; the stop is valid ‘so long as the police are doing no more than they are legally permitted and objectively authorized to do’ ”
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