The driver contended that this action was an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

Fabricating evidence or conducting false arrest is a violation of a person's rights of unreasonable seizure and due process.

The question for the justices was whether the roadblock was a valid investigatory tool or, under the Fourth Amendment, an unreasonable and therefore unconstitutional seizure.

The court ruled that such an arrest for a misdemeanor that is punishable only by a fine does not constitute an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment.

The Fourth Amendment proscribes unreasonable seizure of any person, person's home (including its curtilage) or personal property without a warrant.

The Amendment also protects against unreasonable seizure of their persons, including a brief detention.

Qadi raised "constitutional claims regarding due process, free speech, and protection from unreasonable seizure of assets."

Does the right to be free of unreasonable seizure apply only in the criminal context, or does it apply in the civil context as well?

The hearing is required under state takeover law, which is designed to protect districts against unreasonable seizure.

Without such suspicion, the roadblock was an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment, the court said then.