In an action to enjoin further implementation of a police checkpoint program in Defendant city, the denial of a preliminary injunction is reversed, where the checkpoint did not meet the Fourth Amendment’s requirement of individualized suspicion.

Read Mills v. Dist. of Columbia, No. 08-7127

Appellate Information

Argued May 8, 2009

Decided July 10, 2009

Judges

Opinion by Judge Sentelle

Counsel

For Appellants

Mara E. Verheyden-Hilliard, Washington, DC 

For Appellee:

Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC

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