HALL, Circuit Judge:
The named plaintiffs in this putative class action, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, are the New York Taxi Workers Alliance ("NYTWA" or "Alliance") and four New York City taxi drivers whose licenses to drive yellow cabs were automatically suspended when they were arrested on criminal charges. It is the policy of the City of New York ("City") and its Taxi and Limousine Commission ("TLC" or "Commission"), defendants-appellees here, immediately to suspend a taxi driver's license without a hearing if the charged offense is a felony or one of an enumerated list of misdemeanors, and to do so regardless of whether the offense occurred while the driver was on duty, in his cab, or somewhere else entirely. Once suspended, a driver is entitled to a post-deprivation hearing, but in practice taxi licenses are never reinstated unless and until the driver secures favorable termination of the charges against him.
The plaintiffs argue that drivers are entitled to hearings before their licenses are suspended, and, in the alternative, that the post-suspension hearings currently afforded are inadequate to comport with due process. We agree with the district court that no pre-suspension hearing is required, and affirm its judgment to the extent that it granted summary judgment to the defendants on that claim. However, we are unable to determine whether the post-deprivation hearing affords due process because we find that the record on summary judgment does not support the district court's finding (and the City's claim) that the hearing enables a driver to make a showing that "the charges, even if true, `do not demonstrate that the licensee's continued licensure would pose a threat to public health or safety.'" Nnebe v. Daus, 665 F.Supp.2d 311, 318 (S.D.N.Y.2009) (decision below) (quoting Decl. of Joseph M. Eckstein at ¶ 6).
Accordingly, we vacate and remand for further proceedings, including more detailed fact-finding regarding the scope and process of the post-suspension hearings. We also reverse the district court's ruling that the NYTWA lacks standing.
The TLC is established by the New York City Charter to regulate taxicabs in New York City. Among the powers granted to the TLC by the Charter is the power to issue, revoke and suspend drivers' taxi licenses. Charter Ch. 65, § 2303(b)(5). The New York City Administrative Code authorizes the TLC to promulgate rules and regulations to enforce this power. See
N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 19-512.1(a).
TLC Rule 8-16 implements one such summary suspension procedure. The version of the rule in effect until December 2006, under which the named plaintiffs in this case were charged, provided that "[i]f the Chairperson finds that emergency action is required to insure public health or safety, he/she may order the summary suspension of a license or licensee, pending revocation proceedings." In December 2006—after the hearings that gave rise to the named plaintiffs' claims—section (c) was added to TLC Rule 8-16, stating that "the Chairperson may summarily suspend a license ... based upon an arrest on criminal charges that the Chairperson determines is relevant to the licensee's qualifications for continued licensure," and providing that, at the post-deprivation hearing, "the issue shall be whether the charges underlying the licensee's arrest, if true, demonstrate that the licensee's continued licensure during the pendency of the criminal charges would pose a threat to the health or safety of the public." TLC Rule 8-16(c).
Once a driver's taxi license is summarily suspended under Rule 8-16, the TLC must notify the driver of the suspension within five calendar days, and the licensee may request a hearing before the TLC or an administrative law judge ("ALJ") within 10 days of receipt of the notice of suspension. See N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 19-512.1(a); TLC Rule 8-16(c). The TLC must provide this post-deprivation hearing to the driver within 10 calendar days of receiving the request. See TLC Rule 8-16(c). The ALJ must issue a written recommendation that the Chairperson may accept, modify or reject, and the Chairperson's decision represents "the final determination with respect to the summary suspension." TLC Rule 8-16(e). The defendants acknowledge that the policy expressly stated in TLC Rule 8-16(c) essentially describes the process that was followed under the old version of the rule, and the plaintiffs raise the same objections to both the old and the current rule.
The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services ("DCJS") keeps on file the fingerprints of all licensed taxi drivers. If a driver is arrested, the DCJS notifies the TLC of the driver's identifying information, the date and location of the arrest, the arrest charges, and the section of the penal code under which the licensee was arrested. The DCJS does not, however, provide the TLC with any of the factual bases or allegations underlying the arrest. The TLC maintains a list of offenses, including all felonies and numerous misdemeanors, for which it will summarily suspend a driver upon arrest. The current list of offenses (as amended on November 2, 2006), as well as the pre-November 2006 list, are appended to this opinion for the convenience of the reader. See Appendix at 163 (Current List), 164-65 (Pre-November 2006 List). The pre-November 2006 list included some misdemeanors, such as third-degree assault, which may have involved violence, but many others, such as false advertising, giving unlawful gratuities, and unlawful assembly, which did not. The TLC states that offenses are added to the list if, presuming the truth of the charges, "continued licensure during the pendency of the criminal charges would
At the post-deprivation hearing, the ALJ considers the same materials considered by the TLC lawyer. According to an affidavit supplied by Joseph M. Eckstein, the Deputy Commissioner for Adjudications for the TLC, "the likelihood of a licensee's innocence or guilt as to the subject charges is not at issue," and "[t]he hearing provides a licensee with the opportunity to, inter alia, deny that s/he was arrested; deny that s/he was charged with the particular offense(s) in the notice of summary suspension; or to argue or establish that the pending charge(s), even if true, does not demonstrate that the licensee's continued licensure would pose a threat to public health or safety." Eckstein Decl. ¶ 6. It is undisputed that the ALJs nearly always recommend continuing the suspensions during the pendency of criminal proceedings and that the Chairperson usually accepts the ALJ's recommendation.
In deposition testimony, TLC Chairman Matthew Daus was unable to recall how or when the informal, pre-2006 policy of summarily suspending drivers upon arrest was first adopted. The policy did appear in a manual given to ALJs, but the deputy chief ALJ, at his deposition, was unable to state when this section of the manual had been written, or by whom. TLC lawyer Marc Hardekopf, who represented the TLC at the suspension hearings in these cases, testified at his deposition that the percentage of suspended drivers who are ultimately convicted is "very low," and in no event more than one quarter.
The plaintiffs also adduced evidence that, as explained infra, they argue show that ALJs lack adequate decisional independence. On three occasions within a short span of time in February and March 2006, ALJ Eric Gottlieb recommended that three drivers' licenses be reinstated because, in each case, he found an "overwhelming likelihood" that the drivers' cases would end in a "non-criminal disposition." ALJ Gottlieb's action prompted the following response in an e-mail from the deputy chief ALJ a few weeks later:
(emphasis in original)
ALJ Gottlieb wrote the following e-mail in response:
ALJ Gottlieb testified at his deposition that he was worried that his improper recommendations would lead to his duties being modified or his transfer from Manhattan back to the TLC's Long Island City office, which he called "a very depressing environment." Tr. of Gottlieb Dep. at 89.
Plaintiffs Jonathan Nnebe, Alexander Karmansky, Eduardo Avenaut, Kharirul Amin, and the NYTWA brought this putative class action against the City of New York, the TLC, Daus, and other TLC officials in June 2006. Each of the four named plaintiffs is a taxi driver whose license was suspended in 2005 or 2006 after an arrest. Nnebe was charged with third-degree assault with intent to cause physical injury, Karmansky with first-degree criminal contempt and second-degree criminal trespass, Avenaut with third-degree assault with intent to cause physical injury, and Amin with second-degree menacing with a weapon and third-degree assault with intent to cause physical injury. Each of the four was summarily suspended upon arrest, and each received a hearing in front of ALJ Frank Fioramonti, except for Avenaut, who did not request a post-deprivation hearing. For the three who requested hearings, the outcome was in each case the same—Fioramonti recommended the continued suspension of the driver's license pending resolution of criminal proceedings, and Daus accepted the recommendation. All four drivers eventually secured the reinstatement of their licenses when the relevant district attorneys' offices dropped the charges or the charges were otherwise dismissed. The total period of suspension for each driver proved to be approximately three to four months.
In their putative class-action complaint, the plaintiffs alleged that: (1) the absence of a pre-deprivation hearing denied them procedural due process; (2) assuming no pre-deprivation hearing is required, the post-deprivation hearing provided is insufficient to provide due process because its scope extends no further than determining whether the driver was arrested for the crime charged; (3) the ALJs lack sufficient independence to provide unbiased adjudication; and (4) the TLC violated the City Charter by summarily suspending the lead plaintiffs before the current version of TLC Rule 8-16 was adopted. The plaintiffs moved for class certification, and both sides moved for summary judgment.
In September 2009, the district court issued an opinion and order (1) dismissing the NYTWA as a plaintiff for lack of standing; (2) dismissing the TLC as a defendant because it is not a suable entity; (3) granting the defendants' motion for summary judgment; (4) denying the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment; (5) declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over the plaintiffs' state law claims; and (6) denying as moot the plaintiffs' motion for class certification. See Nnebe v. Daus, 665 F.Supp.2d 311, 334 (S.D.N.Y. 2009).
Turning to the merits of the plaintiffs' procedural due process claims, the district court applied the familiar three-factor test of Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 332, 96 S.Ct. 893, 47 L.Ed.2d 18 (1976).
The court turned next to the plaintiffs' contention that "even if the lack of a pre-deprivation hearing were constitutional, the post-deprivation hearing is not because its scope extends no further than determining whether the plaintiff was actually arrested." Id. at 326. "Necessarily implicit in this argument," the district court wrote,
Id.
The district court relied upon three out-of-circuit cases to make this point: Cooke
The district court also addressed this Court's holding in Krimstock v. Kelly, 306 F.3d 40 (2d Cir.2002) (Sotomayor, J.), where we stated that a post-seizure, pre-forfeiture hearing was required when the City of New York seized the vehicles of individuals charged with drunken driving. See Nnebe, 665 F.Supp.2d at 328-30. The district court found three significant distinctions between Krimstock and this case: (1) the government interest in Krimstock was primarily its financial interest in auctioning off the more expensive of the cars it seized, whereas the government interest in this case is the public confidence and trust in the TLC's judgment with respect to the licensing of drivers, id. at 329; (2) the risk of erroneous deprivation was greater in Krimstock because of the possibility that vehicles merely driven by arrested drivers but whose owners were innocent would be held until the end of civil forfeiture proceedings, id. at 329-30; and (3) the alternative procedure sought in Krimstock was more feasible because, unlike this case, the NYPD was a party to both the criminal proceedings and the civil forfeiture proceedings, and "there was thus little difficulty in ordering the police to make an evidentiary showing to maintain the seizure of the car," id. at 330.
Separately, the district court rejected the plaintiffs' contention that their procedural due process rights were violated because the ALJs were biased or insufficiently independent, noting that the plaintiffs could have brought an Article 78 proceeding in New York State Supreme Court, which would have provided an adequate post-deprivation remedy to the extent that bias was a potential cause of deprivation. Id. (citing Locurto v. Safir, 264 F.3d 154, 174 (2d Cir.2001)). Finally, to the extent that the plaintiffs sought to raise state-law claims directly, the district court dismissed them because it had dismissed all federal claims. Id. at 333-34.
The plaintiffs timely appealed.
We review a district court's grant of summary judgment de novo, and we apply the same standard as the district court. See In re Bennett Funding Grp., Inc., 336 F.3d 94, 99 (2d Cir.2003). To
Before we turn to the merits, we review the district court's determination that NYTWA lacks standing to bring this suit. Standing is "the threshold question in every federal case, determining the power of the court to entertain the suit." Denney v. Deutsche Bank AG, 443 F.3d 253, 263 (2d Cir.2006) (quoting Warth v. Seldin, 422 U.S. 490, 498, 95 S.Ct. 2197, 45 L.Ed.2d 343 (1975)). To establish Article III standing, "a plaintiff must have suffered an `injury in fact' that is `distinct and palpable'; the injury must be fairly traceable to the challenged action; and the injury must be likely redressable by a favorable decision." Id. (quoting Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, 504 U.S. 555, 560-61, 112 S.Ct. 2130, 119 L.Ed.2d 351 (1992)).
It is the law of this Circuit that an organization does not have standing to assert the rights of its members in a case brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, as we have "interpret[ed] the rights [§ 1983] secures to be personal to those purportedly injured." League of Women Voters of Nassau Cnty. v. Nassau Cnty. Bd. of Supervisors, 737 F.2d 155, 160 (2d Cir.1984) (citing Aguayo v. Richardson, 473 F.2d 1090 (2d Cir.1973) ("Neither [the] language nor the history [of § 1983] suggests that an organization may sue under the Civil Rights Act for the violations of rights of members")).
However, nothing prevents an organization from bringing a § 1983 suit on its own behalf so long as it can independently satisfy the requirements of Article III standing as enumerated in Lujan. See Irish Lesbian & Gay Org. v. Giuliani, 143 F.3d 638, 649 (2d Cir.1998) (citing Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman, 455 U.S. 363, 379 n. 19, 102 S.Ct. 1114, 71 L.Ed.2d 214 (1982)). The district court concluded that NYTWA lacked standing in its own right because it "put forward insufficient evidence to allow a reasonable fact finder to conclude that it has had to divert greater resources to more individualized services and away from ... reform efforts." Nnebe, 665 F.Supp.2d at 321. Specifically, the court held that the evidence demonstrated that the association infrequently "counsels drivers whose licenses have been suspended pursuant to the challenged policy." Id. Furthermore, the district court stated that even if the association had demonstrated that counseling occurred with some frequency, it "ha[d] not identified the priorities on which it was unable to focus as a result of the summary suspension procedures." Id.
We disagree with the district court's analysis. The evidence supplied by NYTWA,
We have recognized that only a "perceptible impairment" of an organization's activities is necessary for there to be an "injury in fact." Ragin v. Harry Macklowe Real Estate Co., 6 F.3d 898, 905 (2d Cir.1993) (citing Havens Realty Corp., 455 U.S. at 379, 102 S.Ct. 1114). Even if only a few suspended drivers are counseled by NYTWA in a year, there is some perceptible opportunity cost expended by the Alliance, because the expenditure of resources that could be spent on other activities "constitutes far more than simply a setback to [NYTWA's] abstract social interests." Havens Realty Corp., 455 U.S. at 379, 102 S.Ct. 1114. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has stated that so long as the economic effect on an organization is real, the organization does not lose standing simply because the proximate cause of that economic injury is "the organization's noneconomic interest in encouraging [a particular policy preference]." Id. at 379 n. 20, 102 S.Ct. 1114.
We recognize that some circuits have read Havens Realty differently than we read it in Ragin and have emphasized that "litigation expenses alone do not constitute damage sufficient to support standing." Fair Hous. Council of Suburban Phila. v. Montgomery Newspapers, 141 F.3d 71, 78-79 (3d Cir.1998) (declining to follow our decision in Ragin because it goes too far in allowing standing); see also Spann v. Colonial Vill., Inc., 899 F.2d 24, 27 (D.C.Cir. 1990) (to establish standing, an organization must show "concrete and demonstrable injury to [its] activities") (R.B. Ginsburg, J.). Nevertheless, Ragin remains good law in this Circuit. Moreover, even assuming arguendo that those circuits positing a narrower view of Havens Realty are correct, their decisions (which, like Ragin, arose in the context of the Fair Housing Act) were largely concerned with the capacity of organizations to "manufacture" standing by bringing a suit. See Fair Hous. Council, 141 F.3d at 79; Spann, 899 F.2d at 27.
For example, in Fair Housing Council, the plaintiff organization claimed "that it suffered palpable injury when it was forced to divert resources to investigation." 141 F.3d at 78. But "[t]he `investigation' to which the [organization] refer[red] consisted of having its staff members review classified advertisements placed in [the defendant newspapers] on an ongoing basis for evidence of discrimination." Id. The Third Circuit found that the organization lacked standing to bring a Fair Housing Act against specific discriminatory ads because its alleged "investigation" "was not motivated by the advertisements in this suit or by a complaint about advertising" and because "[t]he record ... does not establish that the [organization] altered its operations in any way as a result of the allegedly discriminatory advertisements or diverted any of its resources to a bona fide investigation." Id.
This case, by contrast, is not an instance of "manufactured" litigation. The Alliance, far from trolling for grounds to litigate, has allocated resources to assist drivers only when another party—the
The Fourteenth Amendment requires that "No state shall ... deprive any person of ... property, without due process of law." In a § 1983 suit brought to enforce procedural due process rights, a court must determine (1) whether a property interest is implicated, and, if it is, (2) what process is due before the plaintiff may be deprived of that interest. See Ciambriello v. Cnty. of Nassau, 292 F.3d 307, 313 (2d Cir.2002). In this case, as the district court recognized, the answer to the first question is undisputed: "a taxi driver has a protected property interest in his license." Nnebe, 665 F.Supp.2d at 323 (citing Bell v. Burson, 402 U.S. 535, 539, 91 S.Ct. 1586, 29 L.Ed.2d 90 (1971)). We are called upon only to decide what process is due.
Due process does not, in all cases, require a hearing before the state interferes with a protected interest, so long as "some form of hearing is [provided] before an individual is finally deprived of [the] property interest." Brody v. Vill. of Port Chester, 434 F.3d 121, 134 (2d Cir.2005) (quoting Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 333, 96 S.Ct. 893, 47 L.Ed.2d 18 (1976)). In other words, "due process is flexible and calls for such procedural protections as the particular situation demands." Id. (quoting Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U.S. 471, 481, 92 S.Ct. 2593, 33 L.Ed.2d 484 (1972)). "Mathews is the test for both when a hearing is required (i.e., pre- or post-deprivation) and what kind of procedure is due...." Id. at 135. The "general rule" is that a pre-deprivation hearing is required, id., but the Mathews inquiry "`provides guidance' in determining whether to `tolerate' an exception to the rule requiring pre-deprivation notice and hearing," Krimstock v. Kelly, 306 F.3d 40, 60 (2d Cir.2002) (Sotomayor, J.) (quoting United States v. James Daniel Good Real Prop., 510 U.S. 43, 53, 114 S.Ct. 492, 126 L.Ed.2d 490 (1993)).
Weighing the three factors of the Mathews test—the private interest, the risk of erroneous deprivation, and the government's interest, see supra n. 3—we agree with the district court that the City is not required to grant a driver a hearing before suspending his license because of an arrest.
With the first Mathews factor (private interest) strongly favoring the plaintiffs and the third factor (government interest) strongly favoring the City, we turn to the second factor—"the risk of an erroneous deprivation of such interest through the procedures used, and the probable value, if any, of additional or substitute procedural safeguards." 424 U.S. at 335, 96 S.Ct. 893. In the predeprivation context, this factor tips the scales decisively in the favor of the City, because the risk of erroneous deprivation is mitigated by the availability of a prompt post-deprivation hearing. Put another way, the "risk of an erroneous deprivation" at stake when deciding whether a pre-suspension or post-suspension hearing is required is only the risk that a driver will lose the income he could have earned between the date of arrest and the date of the post-suspension hearing. Although we understand that even that loss can be deeply problematic for a taxi driver, we conclude that in the immediate aftermath of an arrest, when the TLC has minimal information at its disposal and the very fact of an arrest is cause for concern, the government's interest in protecting the public is greater than the driver's interest in an immediate hearing. Accordingly, insofar as the post-suspension hearing affords adequate process, no pre-suspension hearing is required.
Normally, in a procedural due process case, it is the obligation of the court of appeals to set forth the minimum protections that must be afforded at a post-deprivation hearing, see, e.g., Krimstock, 306 F.3d at 69 ("Although we decline to dictate a specific form for the [post-deprivation] hearing, we hold that, at a minimum, the hearing must enable claimants to test the probable validity of continued
The City, and, to a lesser extent, the plaintiffs, have tended to frame the question on appeal to be whether the TLC must afford drivers a "mini-trial" on the criminal charges against them, and at that hearing allow drivers an opportunity to show they are likely to secure favorable termination of their criminal cases. That is not what troubles us. We agree with the district court that the City cannot be required to hold a hearing that functions as a preview of the criminal case. More to the point, we think that district attorneys and other prosecuting authorities cannot be compelled to participate in a hearing that would test the merits of their case in a civil deprivation proceeding brought by a separate government entity and that is at most tangential to the criminal case. Decisions of other courts, including New York's highest court, strongly suggest that important state policy interests weigh against requiring such participation. See, e.g., People v. Chipp, 75 N.Y.2d 327, 337-38, 553 N.Y.S.2d 72, 552 N.E.2d 608 (1990) (defendant cannot invoke compulsory process at a pretrial hearing testing the suggestiveness of a lineup, in part because of the risk that the defendant could use such hearings to leverage favorable plea bargains or compromise ongoing investigations); Brown v. Dep't of Justice, 715 F.2d 662, 667-68 (D.C.Cir.1983) (administrative hearings that precede trial on the criminal charges would "constitute improper interference with the criminal proceedings if they churn over the same evidentiary material") (quoting Peden v. United States, 512 F.2d 1099, 1103 (Ct.Cl.1975)); see also Brown v. City of New York, 60 N.Y.2d 897, 898, 470 N.Y.S.2d 573, 458 N.E.2d 1250 (1983) (the City of New York and the district attorneys' offices within it are separate entities). Rather, what troubles us is that we do not understand what it is a driver may in fact attempt to show at the hearing the City does offer.
The City asserts that drivers may attempt to present evidence that
Appellees' Br. at 33 (emphasis added). That standard, if it actually is the standard, may be well within the range of adequate due process protections. The problem is that the italicized language appears to be an oft-quoted nullity that in no way resembles a part of the standard ALJs must apply. The record basis for calling it the standard is scant—testimony and affidavits from City witnesses repeatedly recite, in conclusory terms, that a driver may attempt to make the italicized
Lest there be any misunderstanding about what has been argued to us, we emphasize that it is not the City's position that arrest for one of the offenses listed on the TLC's summary suspension chart is per se evidence that "the licensee's continued licensure would pose a threat to public health or safety." We pressed the City about this question in particular at oral argument, asking whether the only showings a driver could attempt to make at the post-suspension hearing were: (1) that he was not charged with one of the crimes on the summary suspension list or (2) that he was not the person named in the arrest report. See Tr. of Oral Arg. at 14-15. The City replied that "they're entitled to bring in evidence . . . from their criminal cases to show, well, even in these cases if the facts are true, I don't pose a risk to public safety." Id. In response to that answer, we asked how a driver could make such a showing if there is a presumption that a arrest for a given offense indicates a risk to public safety. Id. at 15. The City reiterated that a driver could bring in his criminal complaint and argue that "these are the facts that are alleged in the criminal complaint . . . I wouldn't pose a risk to public safety." Id. The City's brief confirms its position that proof regarding the charged offense and proof regarding the regulatory standard are separate issues at the hearing.
The City, then, is not standing on an assumption that automatic continuance of a suspension—after a hearing at which only identity or offense can be disputed— is consistent with due process. The City's defense of the process it affords is premised on a contention that it provides drivers with a real opportunity to show that they do not pose a risk to public safety, arrests notwithstanding. The record on summary judgment, however, does not support the City's view of the facts. To the contrary, the record strongly suggests that, whether de facto or de jure, an ALJ is strictly prevented from considering anything other than the identity of the driver and the offense for which he was charged upon arrest.
Until we have a clearer picture of the scope of the summary suspension hearings, it is unnecessary and inappropriate for us to decide whether a hearing that does nothing more than confirm the driver's identity and the existence of a pending criminal proceeding against him would in fact be adequate process to allow the City to suspend a driver's taxi license until the criminal charges are resolved. We expressly refrain from deciding that question today. We find the question at least open to debate among jurists of reason, however, and we note that the district court, in stating that such a hearing was adequate, relied on decisions that were out-of-circuit and at least arguably in some tension with
Balancing the Mathews factors in the post-deprivation context against the relative value of additional process, see 424 U.S. at 335, 96 S.Ct. 893, could lead to the conclusion that the plaintiffs' interests outweigh the burden on the City of providing additional procedural protections beyond mere confirmation of identity and charge. See, e.g., Krimstock, 306 F.3d at 67 ("Balancing the Mathews factors, we find that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee that deprivations of property be accomplished only with due process of law requires that plaintiffs be afforded a prompt post-seizure, pre-judgment hearing before a neutral judicial or administrative officer to determine whether the City is likely to succeed on the merits of the
On remand, it will be necessary for the district court to conduct additional fact-finding, in the manner it deems appropriate, to determine whether the post-suspension hearing the City affords does indeed provide an opportunity for a taxi driver to assert that, even if the criminal charges are true, continued licensure does not pose any safety concerns. The district court must then determine whether the hearing the City actually provides—whatever it may consist of—comports with due process. In the event the court determines that the post-suspension hearing does not comport with due process, the court is instructed to reconsider its ruling in its entirety. See supra at 158-59.
Because we are vacating the grant of summary judgment with respect to one of the plaintiffs' federal claims, we also vacate the district court's dismissal of their state-law claims. Once the district court has determined how it will treat the federal claim, it may then examine how it will treat the state claims. We express no view with respect to those claims or their disposition.
We affirm the judgment of the district court to the extent that it granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants with respect to the plaintiffs' claim that arrested drivers are entitled to pre-deprivation hearings. We otherwise vacate the judgment of the district court and remand for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
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_________________________________________________________________________ 165.30 Fraudulent Accosting—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 165.40 Criminal Possession of Stolen Property (5th)—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 170.05 Forgery in the 3rd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 170.20 Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument (3rd)—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 175.05 Falsifying Business Records in the 2nd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 175.20 Tampering With Public Records in the 2nd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 175.30 Offering a False Instrument for Filing (2nd)—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 175.45 Issuing a False Financial Statement—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 176.10 Insurance Fraud in the 5th Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 185.00 Fraud in Insolvency—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 185.05 Fraud Involving a Security Interest—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________
185.10 Fraudulent Disposition of Mortgaged Property—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 185.15 Fraudulent Disposition of Property—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 190.20 False Advertising—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 190.23 False Personation—Class B Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 190.25 Criminal Impersonation in the 2nd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 190.60 Scheme to Defraud in the 2nd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 195.05 Obstructing Governmental Administration (2nd)—Class A Misdmeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 195.10 Refusing to Aid a Police/Peace Officer—Class B Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 200.30 Giving Unlawful Gratuities—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 210.05 Perjury in the 3rd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 210.35 Making an Apparently Sworn False Statement (2nd)—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 210.45 Making a Punishable False Written Statement—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 215.10 Tampering With a Witness (4th)— Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 215.23 Tampering With a Juror (2nd)— Class B Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 215.25 Tampering With a Juror (1st)— Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 215.45 Compounding a Crime—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 215.50 Criminal Contempt in the 2nd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 220.03 Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance (7th)—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 220.50 Criminally Using Drug Paraphernalia (2nd)—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 221.10 Criminal Possession of Marijuana (5th)—Class B Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 221.15 Criminal Possession of Marijuana (4th)—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 221.35 Criminal Sale of Marijuana (5th)— Class B Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 221.40 Criminal Sale of Marijuana (4th)— Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 240.06 Riot in the 2nd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 240.08 Inciting to Riol—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 240.10 Unlawful Assembly—Class B Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 240.25 Harassment in the 1st Degree— Class B Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 240.30 Aggravated Harassment In the 2nd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 245.11 Public Display of Offensive Sexual Material—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________ 470.05 Money Laundering in the 3rd Degree—Class A Misdemeanor _________________________________________________________________________
