United States v. Coleman England, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that detaining mail and subjecting it to dog sniff does not amount to seizure until packages are \delayed by their detention\
• holding that there was no Fourth Amendment “seizure” where delivery of package was not delayed, because it is the extent of the interference with the defendant’s possessory interest in the property that determines whether a seizure has occurred
• “[i]t is undisputed that had the sniff test been negative, the package could easily have been returned to the postal station and put on its regularly scheduled flight to Birmingham”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).