Robinson v. Government of the District of Columbia

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Amit P. Mehta, United States District Judge

Plaintiff Rafiq Robinson was arrested for—though not convicted of—violating the District of Columbia’s prohibition on possessing an open container of alcohol in certain public spaces, D.C. Code § 25-1001 (“the POCA law”). Plaintiff filed the present lawsuit on behalf of himself and two potential classes of plaintiffs, challenging the POCA law as unconstitutional on both procedural and substantive due process grounds. As to his procedural due process claim, Plaintiff primarily contends that the POCA law fails to pass constitutional…