# Mancusi v. DeForte

> Supreme Court of the United States · June 17, 1968 · 392 U.S. 364

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9423798

## Case

- **Full name:** MANCUSI, WARDEN v. DeFORTE
- **Court:** Supreme Court of the United States
- **Decided:** June 17, 1968
- **Citations:** 392 U.S. 364; 68 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2449; 88 S. Ct. 2120; 20 L. Ed. 2d 1154; 1968 U.S. LEXIS 3075
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by White
- **Judges:** Harlan, Black, White, Stewart
- **Cited by:** 623 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9423798

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the occupant of an office has standing to challenge warrantless search of his office because entitled to expect only invitees to enter his office
- holding that an employee could reasonably have expected that documents stored in a shared office "would not be touched except with the[ ] permission [of co-occupants of the office] or that of [workplace supervisors]"
- holding *950 that the occupant of an office has standing to challenge warrantless search of his office because entitled to expect only invitees to enter his office
- holding that an employee had a legitimate expectation of privacy in his office even though the papers seized from the office were not the property of the employee

## Opinion text

Mr. Justice White,
dissenting.
Although the Fourth Amendment perhaps protects the individual’s private desk in a union office shared with other officers or employees, I dissent from the Court’s extension of the protected area to the office door.

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