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CITY OF SEATTLE v. MESIANI

Nos. 53825-5, 53859-0.

110 Wn.2d 454 (1988)

755 P.2d 775

THE CITY OF SEATTLE, Respondent, v. TERESE MESIANI, ET AL, Petitioners. C. STEVEN FURY, ET AL, Petitioners, v. THE CITY OF SEATTLE, ET AL, Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

May 12, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth S. Kagan, for petitioners Guidash, et al.

Thomas B. Nast, for petitioners Mesiani, et al.

Dan W. Kilpatric and Davidson, Czeisler & Kilpatric, for petitioners Fury, et al.

Douglas N. Jewett, City Attorney, and Douglas B. Whalley and Terrence J. Cullen, Assistants, for respondent.

UTTER, J.

Petitioners in this consolidated appeal challenge the constitutionality of a sobriety checkpoint program established by the Seattle Police Department during the holiday season of 1983-84. Terese Mesiani represents a group of defendants charged with criminal violations after being stopped at sobriety checkpoints. C. Steven Fury represents a group of plaintiffs routinely stopped at the sobriety checkpoints without individualized suspicion or probable cause...

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