Slanina v. United States
Slanina v. United States, 537 U.S. 802 (2002)
Opinion
C. A. 5th Cir. Motion of petitioner for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Certiorari granted, judgment vacated, and case remanded for further consideration in light of Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U. S. 234 (2002).
How later courts describe this case
Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 2 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.
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(FBI’s “exhaustive search” of defendant’s “office computer equipment,” following “partial[]” search by defendant’s employer that did not implicate Fourth Amendment, held not to violate Fourth Amendment “even though the FBI may have looked at more files” than the employer had)
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(“Once [the private individual] looked at the computer and zip disk, [the defendant’s] expectation of privacy in them had already been eroded. He could not then complain about the FBI search of the same materials even though the FBI may have looked at more files”)
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