# Melvin Corngold v. United States

> Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · September 29, 1966 · 367 F.2d 1

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9452219

## Case

- **Full name:** Melvin CORNGOLD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- **Decided:** September 29, 1966
- **Citations:** 367 F.2d 1; 1966 U.S. App. LEXIS 4865
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Chambers
- **Judges:** Barnes, Chambers, Duniway, Hamley, Jertberg, Merrill, Koelsch, Browning, Ely
- **Cited by:** 162 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- finding “joint endeavor” subject to Fourth Amendment where private party’s purpose was solely to assist federal agents, and agents helped open boxes and inspect contents
- holding that search by private individual at government request was not a "private search"
- noting that the government requested a private person to open a package in a particular person’s possession
- affirming the suppression of evidence where an FBI agent stopped and searched the vehicle of an alien to determine whether the car had been stolen

## Opinion text

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge,
concurs in the dissent of Judge BARNES.

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