Legal Opinion
Swanson v. Town of Mountain View, Colo.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 19, 2009No. 08-1105PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
This case arises from allegations that traffic police for the town of Mountain View, Colorado issued tickets for infractions committed outside the town’s boundaries. Mountain View is a small suburb adjacent to Denver, sharing several streets as a common border. The plaintiffs here are motorists who were stopped and ticketed by Mountain View officers for infractions that occurred on the border streets but within the city of Denver.
In this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, the plaintiffs contend these stops violated their clearly established Fourth Amendment right to be free…
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