Smart v. U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that an officer’s “knowledge of the operation is relevant to the probable cause calculus” because it informs if actions by a suspect “suggest[] intent to steal”
• police sergeant and lieutenant not final policymakers and collecting cases from other circuits that hold the same
• “[Defendants] placed a backpack that a reasonable person would believe to be abandoned next to an ATM.... The fact that [the plaintiff] did not ... drop what he was doing to find the backpack’s owner that instant[ ] in no way suggests that he intended to steal it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).