Constitutional Law
Nov. 29, 2006
Laptop Search at Border Was Illegal
FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Can the police engage in a warrantless search of a person's laptop just because the individual is crossing the border into the United States?
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law
UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
By Erwin Chemerinsky
Can the police engage in a warrantless search of a person's laptop just because the individual is crossing the border into the United States? A recent decision of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California says no and that seems exactly right. In United States v. Arnold, Case No. CR 05-00772 (A)(DDP) (C.D.Cal. Oct. 3, 2006), Judge Dean ...
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