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· 8/27/1987

United States v. Michael Nechy

Citations

  • 827 F.2d 1161
  • 1987 U.S. App. LEXIS 11556

How courts have described this case

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

  • literal reading of § 880 means all investigator had to show in order to secure administrative warrant was that drugstore handled controlled substances
  • generally, “if a search is objectively reasonable, the motives of the officers conducting it will not turn it into a violation of the Fourth Amendment”
  • \We are not happy with a mode of justification by which the government is allowed to do in two steps what if done in one would violate the Fourth Amendment.\
  • “We are not happy with a mode of justification by which the government is allowed to do in two steps what if done in one would violate the Fourth Amendment.”
  • where inspection of pharmacy records was reasonable, and evidence of criminal violations was obtained, \the motives of the officers conducting it will not turn it into a violation of the Fourth Amendment\
  • where inspection of pharmacy records was reasonable, and evidence of criminal violations was obtained, “the motives of the officers conducting it will not turn it into a violation of the Fourth Amendment”

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Judges: Posner, Flaum, Will

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