United States v. Gregory McFayden

How courts have described this case

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• observing that driver license roadblock could be conducted in a way indicating that its principal purpose was to detect crimes unrelated to licensing, in which case \a subterfuge might result in an infringement of Fourth Amendment rights\
• holding “principal purpose of the roadblock was [legitimate]”, but noting the possibility that if a roadblock erected for purportedly legitimate reasons were used for unlawful purposes, this could lead to “a subterfuge [that] might result in an infringement on Fourth Amendment rights_ ”
• holding \principal purpose of the roadblock was [legitimate]\, but noting the possibility that if a roadblock erected for purportedly legitimate reasons were used for unlawful purposes, this could lead to \a subterfuge [that] might result in an infringement on Fourth Amendment rights.... \
• finding minimal subjective intrusion where roadblock was announced at news conference several days earlier and roadblock was well marked
• upholding a roadblock where the Deputy and Assistant Chiefs of Police, and the supervisors of the overall operation, testified that the purpose of the roadblock program was traffic control
• upholding the legality of a roadblock to check for licenses and vehicle registrations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).