Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Xemas, Inc. v. United States

Xemas, Inc. v. United States, 494 U.S. 1027 (1990)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1990-03-19
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • noting that if a prisoner asks for and needs medical care, it must be supplied.
  • officers entitled to qualified immunity inasmuch as the right to adequate medical care did not create a constitutional duty to screen detainees for suicidal tendencies
  • “To pass constitutional muster, the search also must be conducted pursuant to standard police procedures.”
  • "The car [, which had been stopped in a high crime area,] was both a likely target for vandals and a potential source for subsequent dangerous and illegal activity"
  • totality of facts and circumstances support a reasonable belief
  • HMO “is an insurance policy which operates by spreading policyholders’ risk”
  • order granting, inter alia, government’s request for bank records

Citator

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Authority status
pending
Cited by
115 opinions

C. A. 8th Cir. Certiorari denied.