Gates v. Texas Deparment of Protective & Regulatory Services

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “the facts [did] not give rise to an ‘immediate danger’ supporting a warrantless entry into the Gateses’ house.”
• holding that Fourth Amendment requirements were adequate to satisfy due process in case in which plaintiffs’ Fourteenth Amendment allegations “mirror[ed]” their Fourth Amendment claim
• holding that process that satisfies Fourth Amendment standards is adequate to protect parents’ Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest in their child’s custody
• holding that because a home visit “to investigate possible child abuse was not separate from general law enforcement, the special needs doctrine cannot be used to justify the warrantless entry”
• holding Fourth Amendment governs social worker entry into home to investigate possible child abuse and considering and rejecting special needs exception in the same context
• stating that “[w]arrantless searches of a person's home are presumptively unreasonable unless the person consents, or unless probable cause and exigent circumstances justify the search”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).