E. R. Wagner Mfg. Co. v. Porter Steel Specialties

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that it was “not clear” why authorization under state regulations would excuse officials “from compliance with the Fourth Amendment”
• stating that a social worker must have a warrant to enter a home to remove a child absent consent or exigency
• concluding the child welfare worker could have obtained a warrant and no exigency existed when the worker visited a home on referral of child abuse and returned 14 days later to remove the child against the mother’s wishes
• applying warrant and out meeting the strictures of probable cause or the probable cause requirement to coerced strip search warrant requirement.”
• “[Precedent] does not hold that the social worker may enter the home despite the absence of consent or exigency.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).