United States v. Bennett Goldstein and James Edward Kern

How courts have described this case

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• holding canine sniff of checked luggage at an airport is not a search under the Fourth Amendment
• “[T]he passenger’s reasonable expectation of privacy” in the contents of her luggage “does not extend to the airspace surrounding that luggage.”
• \The agents' use of a canine's more enhanced (through training) olfactory sense cannot convert a sniff of the exterior of ... suitcases into a search.\
• a sniff of two checked bags that the defendants had already released to airline custody
• “[T]he passenger’s reasonable expectation of privacy does not extend to the airspace surrounding th[eir] luggage.”
• reasonable expectation of privacy does not extend to airspace around luggage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).