Airport and Seaport Security Searches

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1. Are routine airport or seaport baggage inspections without individual warrants necessarily unreasonable?
2. What role did the port x-ray image of apparent firearms play in Dela Cruz?
3. Did Dela Cruz treat port security personnel as wholly outside constitutional constraints merely because some were not p…
4. A traveler voluntarily submits a bag to routine port x-ray screening. The image reveals apparent firearms, prompting a …
5. The government says a passenger at a terminal has no privacy interest of any kind, so no search can ever be unreasonabl…
6. Port personnel carry out a normal scanner procedure. Its result identifies a suspicious object in a particular bag. A t…
7. An officer conducts an unrelated exploratory search far beyond a terminal’s normal security screening and invokes Dela …
8. Explain the reasonable-security rationale for routine travel screening.
9. Distinguish routine screening from proof of the passenger’s final guilt.
10. Why can constitutional scrutiny apply to port security personnel who are not ordinary police?
11. In Canton, did airport security begin only after a completed custodial arrest?
12. Was Canton’s airport frisker disqualified from carrying out the security function solely because she was a civilian emp…