Legal Opinion
MacWade v. Kelly
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 11, 2006No. Docket No. 05-6754 CVPublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STRAUB, Circuit Judge.
We consider whether the government may employ random, suspicionless container searches in order to safeguard mass transportation facilities from terrorist attack. The precise issue before us is whether one such search regime, implemented on the New York City subway system, satisfies the special needs exception to the Fourth Amendment’s usual requirement of individualized suspicion. We hold that it does.
Shortly after New York City implemented its search program, plaintiffs-appellants Brendan MacWade, Andrew Schonebaum, Joseph E. Gehring, Jr., Partha Banerjee, and Norman…
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