Air Pollution Variance Bd. of Colo. v. Western Alfalfa Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that no Fourth Amendment violation occurred where a state health inspector entered a corporation’s property and inspected plumes of smoke emitted from the corporation’s plant
• holding that no Fourth Amendment violation occurred where a state health inspector entered a corporation’s property and inspected plumes of smoke emitted from the corporation’s plant
• explaining federal “open fields” exception to Fourth Amendment as applied to state air pollution inspector
• finding a state health inspector “well within the ‘open fields’ exception,” whether he was “within or without the premises,” when he stood about two smokestack heights away from the base of the stack to inspect its smoke
• finding a state health inspector “well within the ‘open fields’ exception,” whether he was “within or without the premises,” when he stood about two smokestack heights away from the base of the stack to inspect its smoke
• where health inspector entered \outside premises\ to visually inspect chimney emissions no unreasonable search based on open fields doctrine

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