particularized

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This policy, she explains, “tramples the constitutional requirement that officers must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.”

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2025

The ruling permits federal agents to resume raids across Los Angeles and surrounding counties — raids where people are seized with no warrant, no particularized cause for suspicion.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

In her order, Cannon wrote that the government's request to keep the list of witnesses secret "does not offer a particularized basis to justify sealing the list from public view."

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2023

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit revived the case in 2020, concluding: "A rebuffed request for information to which the requester is statutorily entitled is a concrete, particularized and individualized personal injury."

From Reuters • Jun. 26, 2023

The minor divisions, of which of course there were many, need not be particularized, as the above general classification will be enough for the purposes of this history.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas