All Articles tagged Reasonableness

• New York Appeals
  September 13, 2019 EDT
  LET’S BE REASONABLE: WHY NEW YORK COURTS NEED TO EMBRACE THE FEDERAL STANDARD FOR ANALYZING POLICE-CIVILIAN ENCOUNTERS
  Yuval Simchi-Levi

  Under the Fourth Amendment, federal courts and many other state courts have determined that whether police officers acted lawfully hinges on whether the officers’ conduct was reasonable—plain and simple.