Atwater+v.+City+of+Lago+Vista+(2001)

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 * Case**


 * Gail Atwater was stopped by Lago Vista police for not wearing a seatbelt.


 * The officer than noticed her two children were not wearing their seatbelt either. According to witnesses, the officer raised his voice at Atwater and told her she was going to jail.


 * Atwater remained calm and did not act suspicious in any way. Atwater was handcuffed and put in jail.


 * She was released for $310.00 and a fine for $50. Her husband said that this was against her 4th Amendment because the police man arrested her for only a fine.


 * The case eventually went to the Supreme Court and the court said that the arrest of Gail Atwater was a “pointless indignity”. The court ruled in her favor.

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