United States v. John Woodward Ickes, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the postarrest search of laptop was a border search
• upholding the post-arrest search of a laptop computer at the border where the officials had reason to suspect the computer carried child pornography
• rejecting defendant’s argument that “expressive materials”— such as defendant’s computer and disks, which contained child pornography — are shielded by the First Amendment from routine border searches
• refusing to apply a different standard to border searches of expressive material
• no finding UNITED STATES V . COTTERMAN 55 of reasonable suspicion required to search personal computers and disks at border
• distinguishing between agency practice and constitutional requirements

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