SCOTUS Declines to Determine Fourth Amendment Standard For Border Searches, Leaving Circuit Split Intact
Fourth Amendment, In the News, Supreme Court Opinions
|The U.S. Supreme Court denied ceriorari to a petitioner seeking the Court’s determination as to what standard applies to Fourth Amendment searches at the U.S. border. The Court’s decision not to step in leaves in place a circuit split between courts that hold no probable cause or reasonable suspicion is required for law enforcement to conduct searches and those that hold there must at least be some degree of reasonable suspicion.