Whitaker v. Prince George's County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the “additional marginal deterrence” of applying the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule to civil trials “would not ... outweigh the cost to society in excluding what might concededly be relevant and reliable evidence”
• “Though [Janis ] cannot be said to stand for the proposition that evidence may never be excluded in a civil proceeding, it nonetheless severely undermined those cases in lower courts which applied the exclusionary rule to civil proceedings.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).