United States in No. 04-2807 v. Eugene Ivor Williams. United States v. Eugene Ivor Williams in No. 04-2903

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• holding that the Fourth Amendment is not implicated by police officers simply approaching a vehicle
• stating that officers do not violate the Fourth Amendment “merely by approaching individuals on the street or in other public places”
• finding that a seizure occurs where an officer applies “physical force to the person being seized, or . . . the person submit[s] to an assertion of police authority”
• no seizure when officers drove up to parked van and then approached it on foot
• no seizure when officers drove up to parked van and then approached it on foot
• “[m]erely approaching an individual, whether standing or in an automobile, does not constitute a seizure under the Fourth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).