Skip to main content
Find a Lawyer

United States Supreme Court


Alvarez v. Smith, 08-351

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.

Appellate Information

  • Decided 12/08/2009
  • Published 12/08/2009

Judges

Court

  • United States Supreme Court

Counsel

Copied to clipboard