Government,
Civil Litigation
Sep. 30, 2022
FBI search of safety deposit boxes was proper, judge rules
Robert E. Johnson, senior attorney for the Institute for Justice and the class of plaintiffs, announced Thursday their intention to appeal the decision, which he called “dangerous.”
The government’s search of nearly 700 safety deposit boxes in Beverly Hills did not violate the Fourth Amendment, a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled, finding that FBI policy required the search and seizure of the contents.
“The warrant authorized the government to seize the nests of deposit boxes and inventory the contents of those boxes in accordance with standardized policy,” U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled Thursday. “The inv...
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