Sentence examples for constituted a search from inspiring English sources

In the United States, fewer than 10 years after the use of thermal imaging in the Waco, Texas Branch Davidian siege, the watershed case of Kyllo versus United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001) held that thermal imaging constituted a "search" against which individuals had a right to both due process and privacy.

Justice Harlan's concurrence in Katz v. United States set forth the test for determining whether government conduct constituted a search.

Before United States v Jones (2012), the Supreme Court used only a notoriously ambiguous privacy test for determining whether government action constituted a search under the Fourth Amendment.

The appeals court disagreed, ruling that use of the GPS device to track Jones 24 hours a day for four weeks constituted a search in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The majority held that by physically installing the GPS device on the defendants car, the police had committed a trespass against Jones' "personal effects" – this trespass, in an attempt to obtain information, constituted a search per se.

The minority of the justices followed that later approach, and concluded that "long-term" GPS surveillance – four weeks, in this case – constituted a search that violated Jones' "reasonable expectation of privacy".

In Jones, the Supreme Court held that attaching a G.P.S. device to a car to track its movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.

Jones, which held that placement of a hidden tracking device on a suspect's car constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.

The court had also ruled in the past that a sniff by a drug-detecting dog, which is commonly used at airports, is so minimally intrusive as not to constitute a search.

The Maynard ruling determined that the government may capture pieces of information that, when reviewed individually, are not invasions of privacy, but may constitute a search subject to a Fourth Amendment review when taken together.

In his dissent from the Supreme Court's denial of further review to the young woman, Brennan said that in his opinion the use of the dogs did indeed constitute a search.