Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Washington

Associated Grocers, Inc. v. Wash., 498 U.S. 1023 (1991)

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1991-01-07
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • anonymous tip sufficiently corroborated by police observations so as to furnish the officers with reasonable suspicion necessary for an investigatory stop
  • the evidence showed the African-Americans would constitute a majority of a district’s voting age population
  • six elections, with percentage differences ranging from 97 (100 - 3) to 24 (65 - 41), with an average percentage difference of 55
  • officers who had received an anonymous tip that the defendant had been involved in a bank robbery were justified in using force to effectuate a Terry stop on him
  • sterility from exposure to pesticide

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Sup. Ct. Wash. Certiorari denied. Reported below: 114 Wash. 2d 182, 787 P. 2d 22.