John William Wood v. the State of Texas

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• finding exigent cir‐ cumstances to seize dogs where the dogs were left out “in se‐ verely inclement winter weather” and “extremely emaci‐ ated”
• describing \'narrow category' of cases where an exception to the warrant requirement is justified\
• emergency aid exception to constitutional warrant requirement extends to police action undertaken to render emergency assistance to animals
• \Such scenarios [of emergency aid] present one type of 'exigent circumstance' that obviates the need for a warrant\
• ‘“[I]n appropriate circumstances, animals, like humans, should be afforded the protection of the emergency aid exception”
• warrantless search of a home falls under the emergency aid exception where officers “have an objectively reasonable basis to believe” that an animal inside is injured or in imminent danger of physical harm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).