Immigration
Jun. 14, 2013
Border laptop searches: suspicion required?
As the summer travel season begins, the courts continue to debate whether laptops at the border may be routinely searched without a warrant or reasonable suspicion. By Laurie L. Levenson and Diana Cho
Laurie L. Levenson
Professor of Law
Loyola Law School
criminal law
919 Albany St
Los Angeles , CA 90015
Phone: (213) 736-1149
Fax: (213) 380-3769
Email: laurie.levenson@lls.edu
UCLA Law School
Laurie is founding director of Loyola's Project for the Innocent and David W. Burcham chair in ethical advocacy.
As the summer travel season begins, the courts continue to debate whether laptops at the border may be routinely searched without a warrant or reasonable suspicion.
In 2008, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided in United States v. Arnold, 533 F.3d 1003, 1008 (9th Cir. 2008), cert. denied, 555 U.S. 1176 (2009), that officials may search a person's laptop computer without reasonable suspicion. Micha...
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