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Katz v. United States
No. 35 SCOTUS · Decided SCOTUS
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The Fourth Amendment protects people, not places; wiretapping a phone booth was a search because society recognizes an expectation of privacy there. The reasonable-expectation-of-privacy test underlying all modern search law.
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