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Initial Fourth Amendment case law hinged on a citizen's property rights that is, when the government physically intrudes on "persons, houses, papers, or effects" for the purpose of obtaining information, a "search" within the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment has occurred.
Such a situation – where a substantive amendment moots a prior clerical or conforming amendment – has occurred with great frequency in the U.S. Code.
The Robertson family recently asked the state superior court for permission to amend the original filing; the amendment has not yet occurred.
Because the Court today ignores that warning in an opinion that departs significantly from the standard developed in Katz for deciding when a Fourth Amendment violation has occurred, I dissent.
(a) The question whether a warrantless search of a home is reasonable and hence constitutional must be answered no in most instances, but the antecedent question whether a Fourth Amendment search has occurred is not so simple.
The crisis has occurred.
The opposite has occurred.
The change has occurred.
The inevitable has occurred.
President Grant said of the amendment that it "completes the greatest civil change and constitutes the most important event that has occurred since the nation came to life".
One threshold question in the Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is whether a "search" has occurred.
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