United States v. Jeremy Stevenson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that AOL searching email for child pornography was based on its own initiative not as government agent
• “The Fourth Amendment applies only to state action, so it does not constrain private parties unless they act as agents or instruments of the government.”
• “A reporting requirement, standing alone, does not transform an Internet service provider into a government agent whenever it chooses to scan files sent on its network for child pornography.”
• “A district court must hold an evidentiary hearing only when the moving papers are sufficiently definite, specific, and detailed to establish a contested issue of fact.”
• “Where a defendant offers only conclusory allegations in support of a motion . . . and where those allegations are unsupported by any citation to the record, a district court does not abuse its discretion by refusing to hold an evidentiary hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).