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Amici curiae

A group of legal scholars, including University of Iowa law professor James Tomkovicz, wrote an amicus curiae brief asking the court to overturn the 1981 case of New York v. Belton that granted police the authority to search a person's vehicle even if the person is not in the vehicle. According to Tomkovicz, Belton failed to meet the constitutional standard of probable cause.