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· 2/2/2005

United States v. Efrain Becerra-Garcia

Citations

  • 397 F.3d 1167
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 1643
  • 2005 WL 237647

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding “Indian Civil Rights Act ... imposed an ‘identical limitation’ on tribal government conduct as the Fourth Amendment.”
  • rejecting that a traffic stop “is automatically unreasonable if the officers lacked authority to conduct the seizure”
  • stating that the Fourth Amendment “does not directly apply to the conduct of tribal governments”
  • holding “the reasonableness of a seizure depends exclusively on federal law” and noting “the well-established proposition that an arrest in violation of state law may still be constitutionally reasonable”
  • noting that under the Fourth Amendment, “investigative traffic stops” require “only reasonable suspicion”
  • noting that under the Fourth Amendment, “investigative traffic stops” require “only reasonable suspicion”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Meskill, Trott, McKeown

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