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· 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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