Action Against Police for Seizing Pawnshop Property

In PPS, Inc. v. Faulkner Cty., Ark., No. 09-3540,  an action claiming that the police seized property from a pawn shop’s inventory without a warrant and in violation of its Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights, the court affirmed summary judgment for defendant where 1) the plain view doctrine justified an officer’s seizure of an item; and 2) the district court did not need to find that the alleged victim of a theft was in fact the owner of the property before the plain view doctrine would authorize the item’s seizure.

 

Related Resources

  • Read the Eighth Circuit’s Decision in PPS, Inc. v. Faulkner Cty., Ark., No. 09-3540

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