Highway Construction Co. v. J. C. Brownstone & Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that police officers did not “stop” defendant sitting in car until a few seconds into the encounter when it became clear that defendant was not free to go
• holding that arresting a man for disorderly conduct after calling a police officer a \son of a bitch\ violated the defendant's First Amendment rights
• holding that police officers did not “stop” defendant sitting in car until a few seconds into the encounter when it became clear that defendant was not free to go
• noting that “officers may rely on a trustworthy second hand report, if that report includes facts that give rise to particularized suspicion”
• stating that in conducting a suppression analysis, the court “must first determine at what moment [the defendant] was seized”
• noting that “officers may rely on a trustworthy second hand report, if that report includes facts that give rise to particularized suspicion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).