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  2. United States v. Drayton - Wikipedia

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    Case history; Prior: United States v. Drayton, 231 F.3d 787 (11th Cir. 2000); cert. granted, 534 U.S. 1074 (2002).: Holding; Police officers who questioned and searched passengers on a bus did not violate the Fourth Amendment because the passengers consented to the search and the passengers were free to exit the bus

  3. Florida v. Bostick - Wikipedia

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    Case history; Prior: Bostick v. State, 554 So. 2d 1153 (Fla. 1989): Holding; A search of a passenger on a bus is not unreasonable simply because the search takes place on a bus. The search is reasonable if, under all the circumstances, the suspect felt free to decline the officers' request for a search and leave the sce

  4. Wyoming v. Houghton - Wikipedia

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    Wyoming v. Houghton, 526 U.S. 295 (1999), is a United States Supreme Court case which held that absent exigency, the warrantless search of a passenger's container capable of holding the object of a search for which there is probable cause is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution because it is justified under the automobile exception as an effect of the car.

  5. New York v. Belton - Wikipedia

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    New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454 (1981), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that when a police officer has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, the officer may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile.

  6. Kolender v. Lawson - Wikipedia

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    Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352 (1983), [1] is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of vague laws that allow police to demand that "loiterers" and "wanderers" provide "credible and reliable" identification.

  7. Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. - Wikipedia

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    Carolina Trailways Bus Station, shown with a Carolina Trailways bus, in a postcard from the North Carolina State Archives. The Keys case originated in an incident that occurred at a bus station in the North Carolina town of Roanoke Rapids shortly after midnight on August 1, 1952, when African American WAC private Sarah Keys was forced by a local bus driver to yield her seat in the front of the ...

  8. How safe are school buses? Here's what experts say — and how ...

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    The same data shows that of those injured in school bus crashes, 30% were bus passengers while 53% were people riding in other vehicles. In other words, you’re far less likely to be injured if ...

  9. Illinois v. Gates - Wikipedia

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    Case history; Prior: 85 Ill. 2d 376, 423 N.E.2d 887; cert. granted, 454 U.S. 1140 (1982).: Holding; The rigid "two-pronged test" under Aguilar and Spinelli for determining whether an informant's tip establishes probable cause for issuance of a warrant is abandoned, and the "totality of the circumstances" approach that traditionally has informed probable cause determinations is substituted in ...