Robert Anthony Johnson v. City of Evanston, Illinois

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant police officer, who had seized and held plaintiffs car, stated plaintiffs constitutional due process claim for him by contending that plaintiff had no remedy in state law
• city’s contention that plaintiff had no remedy for deprivation of use of his car “just [made] Johnson’s constitutional point”
• “The Constitution’s requirements are as applicable to the police when they choose sides in a dispute among citizens as when they seize evidence for use in criminal prosecutions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).