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· 4/26/1954

Hamme v. Commissioner

Citations

  • 347 U.S. 954
  • 74 S. Ct. 679
  • 98 L. Ed. 1099
  • 1954 U.S. LEXIS 2190

How courts have described this case

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  • holding impermissibly overbroad a warrant in tax fraud investigation authorizing the seizure of all business records
  • holding impermissibly overbroad a warrant in tax fraud investigation authorizing the seizure of all business records
  • concluding warrant did not satisfy particularity requirement because \[i]t authorized government agents to rummage through all of [defendant's records] seeking any information pertaining to any federal crime\
  • concluding warrant did not satisfy particularity requirement because “[i]t authorized government agents to rummage through all of [defendant’s records] seeking any information pertaining to any federal crime”
  • stating that § 371 is so broad that citing it “places no real limitation on the warrant”
  • stating that “[t]he particularity requirement ensures that a search is confined in scope to particularly described evidence relating to a specific crime for which there is demonstrated probable cause”

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