Supreme Court of the United States · Official docket →
Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al.
IFP petition · Supreme Court of Florida, No. SC2025-1391 · judgment September 9, 2025
Questions presented
The questions presented for review are:
-
Whether 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?
-
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?
-
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?
-
Whether continued withholding of a vehicle following dismissal or acquittal of all related charges, without a prompt post-seizure hearing, satisfies due process requirements?
-
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?
-
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? Petition for Writ of Certiorari: ii
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Rashid Muhammad Abdullah
For respondent
Jay Daigneault
Trask Daigneault, LLP
Case
Subject area
Due Process (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, March 23, 2026 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Mar 23 2026Petition DENIED.
- Mar 05 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
- Feb 26 2026Reply of petitioner Rashid Abdullah filed. (Distributed)
- Feb 18 2026Brief of respondents City of Plant City, Florida, et al. in opposition filed.
- Jan 23 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 2, 2026.
- Jan 15 2026Motion to extend the time to file a response from January 29, 2026 to March 2, 2026, submitted to The Clerk.
- Dec 08 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 29, 2026)