9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Dec. 11, 2023
Panel skeptical of FBI’s rationale for safety deposit searches
“The government did all of this without any particularized probable cause as to the owners of those safety deposit boxes. This is precisely the kind of generalized search that the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent,” argued Robert Johnson of the Institute for Justice.
A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel appeared to take a dim view last week of government arguments defending an FBI search of hundreds of safety deposit boxes in Beverly Hills.
Attorneys for the class argued the search violated the Fourth Amendment in a lawsuit, but U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner ruled in the government’s favor.
The 9th Circuit panel appeared to disagree Thursday, peppering a U.S. De...
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