· 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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