Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
- Decided
- June 5, 1967
- Docket
- 92
- Status
- Published
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
Cited 3,591 timesOverruled on other grounds (not yet verified)Possible negative treatment: overruled on other grounds (not yet verified) · Hussein Mann v. Calumet City, Illinois
What later courts said
- holding that a warrant based on probable cause is required for administrative search of residences for safety inspections — United States v. James Daniel Good Real Property (1993)
- holding that “inspection programs ... aimed at securing city-wide compliance with minimum physical standards for private property” were covered by the fourth amendment — United States v. Thomas P. Attson (1990)
- holding that warrantless inspection of a private residence for possible housing code violations did not comport with the Fourth Amendment — Paul Palmieri v. Pamela Lynch, AKA Pam Lynch, John Doe 1 (2004)
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How the opinion begins
[*525] Mr. Justice White delivered the opinion of the Court.
In Frank v. Maryland, 359 U. S. 360, this Court upheld, by a five-to-four vote, a state court conviction of a homeowner who refused to permit a municipal health inspector to enter and inspect his premises without a search warrant. In Eaton v. Price, 364 U. S. 263, a similar conviction was affirmed by an equally divided Court. Since those closely divided decisions, more intensive efforts at all levels of government to contain and eliminate urban blight have led to increasing use of such inspection techniques, while numerous decisions of this Court have more fully defined the Fourth Amendment's effect on state and municipal action.
E. g., Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643;
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Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco, 387 U.S. 523 (1967)Read the full opinion
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