Lewis v. Shell

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• holding that allegations that officers facilitated repossession of vehicle by threatening arrest and causing plaintiff to turn over the vehicle states a plausible procedural due process claim
• noting that a “motion to dismiss tests the legal sufficiency of a complaint to determine whether the plaintiff has properly stated a claim”
• “[T]he Virginia Code . . . clearly states that self-help repossession can only proceed ‘without judicial process, if it proceeds without breach of the peace.’” (first citing Va. Code Ann. § 8.9A-609; and then Universal Credit Co. v. Taylor, 180 S.E. 277 (Va. 1935)

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