Fane Lozman and the city of
Riviera Beach, Florida
Riviera Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, which was incorporated on September 29, 1922. Due to the location of its eastern boundary, it is also the easternmost municipality in the Miami metropolitan area. In the 2020 ...
, have been parties to a number of lawsuits, two of which have been heard by the
United States Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on question ...
.
* In
''Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach'', 568 U.S. 115 (2013), the Supreme Court ruled that a "
vessel" is something that a
reasonable observer would consider designed for transportation on water, and that Lozman's
floating home was thus not a vessel.
* In
''Lozman v. City of Riviera Beach'', 585 U.S. ___ (2018), the Supreme Court ruled that the existence of
probable cause
In United States criminal law, probable cause is the legal standard by which police authorities have reason to obtain a warrant for the arrest of a suspected criminal and for a court's issuing of a search warrant. One definition of the standar ...
for a city police officer's arrest of Lozman did not bar him from bringing a retaliation claim under
42 U.S.C. § 1983.
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