United States v. Roshon E. Thomas, AKA Rollin Roy Phillips

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an unauthorized driver of a rental car may have standing to challenge a search of the vehicle if he has permission to use the car from the authorized driver
• concluding that someone given permission by the leasee to operate a rental car has an expectation of privacy in it because such a person has the principal indicia of ownership — the right to exclude others
• unauthorized 1 driver of a rental car without permission from owner lacked standing to challenge 2 search
• “[I]t is undisputed that Thomas failed to show that he received McGuffey’s permission to use the car. Therefore, the district court properly concluded that Thomas lacks standing to challenge the search.”
• an unauthorized driver with permission to drive the car does have standing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).