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Evicted tenant has no Fourth Amendment rights

POSTED: Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 at 1:17 pm

BY: David Ziemer, david.ziemer@wislawjournal.com

A tenant who has been served notice of a writ of restitution loses any expectation of privacy in the premises.

10-3033 U.S. v. Curlin (access required)

POSTED: Monday, April 25th, 2011 at 1:06 pm

BY: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF

Search and Seizure Reasonable expectation of privacy A tenant has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his residence once a writ of restitution is issued. “The Fourth Amendment explicitly protects the house and entry by officers into a home is generally considered a search. But see Kyllo, 533 U.S. at 33 (noting that ‘a Fourth [...]

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