No. 25-6444

Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al.

Lower Court: Florida
Docketed: 2025-12-30
Status: Pending
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the petitioner's favor during prior criminal and civil traffic proceedings when those determinations are central to a subsequent civil negligence action?

2. Whether repeated warrantless seizures and the final taking of a vehicle after multiple dismissals or acquittals raise a federal question under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments?

3. Whether a vehicle previously recognized by state courts as exempt under state law may be subjected to renewed seizures and a taking without implicating federal constitutional limits?

4. Whether continued withholding of a vehicle following dismissal or acquittal of all related charges, without a prompt post-seizure hearing, satisfies due process requirements?

5. Whether a state supreme court's refusal to review an unelaborated per curiam affirmance prevents meaningful consideration of federal questions that were properly raised and preserved?

6. Whether a summary judgment order that provides no findings and does not address judicially noticed facts satisfies the minimum procedural protections required by the Due Process Clause?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes re-litigation of factual determinations resolved in prior proceedings when central to a subsequent civil negligence action

Docket Entries

2026-02-18
Brief of City of Plant City, et al. in opposition submitted.
2026-01-23
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 2, 2026.
2026-01-22
Motion of City of Plant City, et al. for an extension of time submitted.
2026-01-15
Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 29, 2026 to March 2, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
2025-12-08
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 29, 2026)

Attorneys

City of Plant City, et al.
Jay DaigneaultTrask Daigneault, LLP, Respondent
Rashid Abdullah
Rashid Muhammad Abdullah — Petitioner