In re E. C.

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 person has no reasonable expectation of privacy in IP addresses communicated to a third party
• holding that the Fourth Amendment does not reach “intrusive conduct by private individuals”
• “[A] private party’s otherwise legitimate, independent motivation is not rendered invalid just because law enforcement may further its interests.”
• a private search may only implicate the Fourth Amendment 2 where “the private party acts as an agent of the Government or with the participation or knowledge 3 of any governmental official”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).