Opinion

Brown v. Commissioner

  • 484 U.S. 924
  • 56 U.S.L.W. 3320
  • 108 S. Ct. 285
  • 98 L. Ed. 2d 246
  • 1987 U.S. LEXIS 4551
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Nov 2, 1987
Status
Published
Cited by
58 cases
Authority
More cited than 97.6%

concluding exigent circumstances justified entry onto defendant’s property and arrest of defendant in his car while on premises for misdemeanor offense punishable by fine, imprisonment, and license revocation

How later courts described this case

  • concluding exigent circumstances justified entry onto defendant’s property and arrest of defendant in his car while on premises for misdemeanor offense punishable by fine, imprisonment, and license revocation
  • evaluating employee status in the context of the Fair Labor Standards Act
  • “Control is only significant when it shows an individual exerts such a control over a meaningful part of the business that she stands as a separate economic entity.”
  • “The idea is that the finding is not sufficiently rehable, without the opportunity for appellate review of it, to be made incontestable in a subsequent suit”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

This record has no opinion text. It is a disposition such as a denial of certiorari, kept so the case can be found by name and citation.

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