For the second time in as many years, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided a dog-sniffing case.

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When Mequon patrol officer John Hoell returned Kenneth House’s driver’s license and issued a warning for driving a car with expired registration, House’s roadside seizure should have stopped right then, according to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in State of Wisconsin v. Kenneth C. House, 2012 AP 2414.

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Police engaged in a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when they used a drug-sniffing dog on a homeowner’s porch to investigate the contents of the home, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 5-4.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether the police’s use of trained narcotics sniffing dogs at the front door of a suspect’s house is a search under the Fourth Amendment requiring probable cause.

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