The phrase "a showing of probable" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "The court required a showing of probable cause to proceed with the case."
Alternatives: "demonstration of likelihood" or "evidence of probability."
Searches in public schools require neither warrants nor a showing of probable cause.
The Fourth Amendment guarantees that people will be safe from "unreasonable searches and seizures" barring a showing of probable cause.
The agencies could also, after a showing of probable cause to judges, vastly increase monitoring of telephone and Internet communications, wire transfers of money and tax records.
(Of course, they would have to make a showing of probable cause, which they were able to skip by going directly to the A.P.'s phone companies).
To justify a seizure, law enforcement officials need only make a showing of "probable cause" that the property is subject to forfeiture, an easy standard to meet.
An arrest warrant may be issued by a court or judicial officer on a showing of probable cause that a criminal offense has been committed and that the person charged in the warrant is probably guilty.
It has held that the government can require all persons boarding an airplane to pass through a magnetometer -- without any showing of probable cause to believe that any specific person is carrying a weapon.
For example, the court has held that the government can inspect all homes in a town for possible housing code violations -- without any showing of probable cause to believe that any specific home has such a violation.
It has held that the police can use roadblocks in which they stop every car approaching a particular checkpoint in order to check for drunken drivers -- without any showing of probable cause to believe that any specific person is drunk.
It has held that a police officer can frisk an individual he has stopped for questioning if the officer has reasonable and articulable grounds to suspect that the person is armed and presently dangerous -- without any showing of probable cause to believe that the individual has either committed a crime or possesses a weapon.
In his majority opinion on Wednesday in Hartman v. Moore, No. 04-1495, JuSoutersaider said that showing an absence of probable cause was the most reliable way to make the necessary link "between the retaliatory animus of one person and the action of another".
