United States v. Jorge A. Pulido-Baquerizo

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “a visual inspection and limited hand search of luggage” that “is conducted in a manner which produces negligible social stigma” “involves only a slight privacy intrusion”
• holding that the visual inspection and hand search of a passenger’s luggage was constitutional where it was “used for the purpose of detecting weapons or explosives and not in order to uncover other types of contraband”
• noting that weapons and explosives can be “small and easily concealed” and that “[t]heir detection is difficult”
• noting that weapons and explo- sives can be “small and easily concealed” and that “[t]heir detection is difficult”
• noting that weapons and explo- sives can be “small and easily concealed” and that “[t]heir detection is difficult”
• noting that an “airport screening agent has a duty to ferret out firearms and explosive devices carried by passengers,” a duty that “could not be fulfilled if the agent was prohibited from conducting a visual inspection and limited hand search after an inconclusive x-ray scan”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).