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Article: Supreme Court to Hear Ill. Case with Significant Fourth Amendment Implications; ACLU Urges Court to Reject Suspicionless Searches
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 4, 2003
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CHICAGO, Nov. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The constitutionality of a 1997
police roadblock to gather information about a vehicular accident
that occurred a week earlier in the Chicago suburb of Lombard will be
considered this week by the Supreme Court of the United States. In a
friend of the court brief, the American Civil Liberties Union of
Illinois argues that stopping motorists for the purpose of gathering
information -- without any suspcion that the motorist has violated
any law -- violates motorists' Fourth Amendment protection against
unreasonable seizures. The case, Illinois v. Lidster, is set for
argument before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, November 5th.
The case traces back to ...