The Constitutionality of Airport Searches

Authors

Michigan Law Review, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

This Note will discuss airport searches in comparison to several situations in which the courts have found that the requirements of the fourth amendment do not apply or are satisfied even in the absence of a warrant: border searches, administrative searches, stop-and-frisk searches, and searches under express or implied consent. None of these are perfectly analogous to the present airport procedures. Therefore, if airport searches are to be allowed, either the procedures must be modified to fit the established exceptions, or a new exception to the warrant requirement of the fourth amendment must be created.

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, The Constitutionality of Airport Searches, 72 Mich. L. Rev. 128 (1973).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol72/iss1/5