Court: Chalked tires violate rights of Michigan woman with 14 parking tickets – Autoblog August 26, 2021

I saw this recently on Autoblog – Court: Chalked tires violate rights of Michigan woman with 14 parking tickets: https://www.autoblog.com/2021/08/26/parking-enforcement-tire-chalk-fourth-amendment-case-michigan/. Going to be interesting to see how this turns out if it reaches the Supreme Court. Slightly longer article.

GREG RASA August 26, 2021

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In other words, the ability of the government to invade your space is limited. It’s a civics lesson Alison Taylor and her lawyer hadn’t forgotten. Taylor, who had sued Saginaw, Mich., over 14 parking tickets she had racked up, has won a major court decision that says the city used a parking enforcement officer’s modest piece of tire chalk to deface the Fourth Amendment.

Taylor argued that using the chalk to mark her tires constituted an unreasonable search without a warrant. Saginaw said the act of chalking Taylor’s car was an exception to the Fourth Amendment.

But a three-judge panel of a federal appeals court just ruled unanimously that Taylor’s novel argument was right, and Saginaw is wrong. 

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