Department of Environmental Protection v. Emerson

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding unenclosed area of landfill covered with tires and debris was \open field\ outside protection of the Fourth Amendment
• “The area [that the Department searched] covered with tires and demolition debris constituted an open field in which defendant could not reasonably expect privacy.”
• “The Superior Court erred as a matter of law in imposing a lesser penalty.”
• “[T]he daily [civil] penalty has coercion as the primary purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).