A late-night traffic stop at a Boise car wash led to a federal judge striking down the loitering ordinance in Idaho’s largest city.
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Lynn Winmill issued a ruling in a lawsuit brought by Luke Schuchardt filed in January 2024, arguing that two Boise Police Department officers violated the Fourth and Fourteenth amendments when they stopped him in March 2022. A complaint filed against the City of Boise and Boise Police Officers Craig Sousa and Ryan Pollard argued that the move to question him was an unreasonable seizure and that the city’s anti-loitering ordinance, in general, led to constitutional rights violations.
Winmill agreed, siding with Schuchardt and his attorney Brian Ertz in a filing on Monday…