Opinion

Commissioner v. Brown

  • 380 U.S. 901
  • 85 S. Ct. 879
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Filed
Mar 1, 1965
Status
Published
Cited by
35 cases
Authority
More cited than 86.2%

holding that the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment must be “accorded the most scrupulous exactitude when the ‘things’ are books, and the basis for their seizure is the ideas which they contain.”

How later courts described this case

  • holding that the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment must be “accorded the most scrupulous exactitude when the ‘things’ are books, and the basis for their seizure is the ideas which they contain.”
  • Permission to hold a demonstration granted by the Chief of Police in the presence of the Mayor and Sheriff

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

C. A. 9th Cir. (Certiorari granted, 377

U. S. 962.) Motion of Dana Latham for leave to participate in oral argument, as counsel for amici curiae, denied.

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