In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case involving whether Illinois law provides a sufficiently speedy opportunity for an individual, whose car or cash police have seized without a warrant, to contest the lawfulness of the seizure, a circuit court’s ruling reversing dismissal of the action is vacated and the case is remanded where the action was moot because all of the actual property disputes between the parties had been resolved.
Read Alvarez v. Smith, No. 08-351
Appellate Information
Argued October 14, 2009
Decided December 8, 2009
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Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Justice Stevens
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