Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a warrant based on probable cause is required for administrative search of residences for safety inspections
• holding that the imposition of the warrant requirement “depends in part upon whether the burden of obtaining a warrant is likely to frustrate the governmental purpose behind the search.”
• holding that a warrant based on probable cause is required for administrative search of residences for safety inspections
• holding that a warrant was needed to perform an administrative search upon private property
• holding that the Warrant Clause applies to regulatory inspections
• noting that “most regulatory laws, fire, health, and hous- ing codes are enforced by criminal process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).