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· 5/13/1926

Johnson & Wimsatt, Inc. v. Hax

Citations

  • 15 F.2d 1009
  • 1926 U.S. App. LEXIS 3077

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that the Fourth Amendment protects an individual’s privacy interest in an automobile
  • holding that a strip and body 15 cavity search of a prison visitor “may be conducted only when there is reasonable suspicion 16 [and] also demands that the person to be subjected to such an invasive search be given the 17 opportunity to depart”
  • regarding as \clearly established\ the requirement that officials have reasonable suspicion before conducting strip or body cavity search of visitors, although authorities \need not secure a war- rant or have probable cause\
  • reasonable suspicion satisfied where inmate-informant “had provided accurate and important information on at least one prior occasion”
  • “We cannot say that the Constitution requires individualized suspicion to search a car on prison grounds, particularly if the visitor has been warned that the car is subject to search.”
  • reasonable suspicion satisfied where inmate- informant \had provided accurate and important information on at least one prior occasion\

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