Brown v. City of Oneonta

After an elderly burglary victim described her attacker as a young Black male with a cut hand, City of Oneonta police (defendant) obtained a list of Black male students at a nearby college and interviewed them, and separately stopped and questioned young, nonwhite males on the street, checking for hand cuts. Brown and other individuals questioned this way (plaintiffs) sued, alleging the investigation constituted unconstitutional racial profiling under the Equal Protection Clause; the city moved for summary judgment.