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"Laptops fair game for airport customs searches"

"Laptops fair game for airport customs searches": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "Customs agents at U.S. airports don't need any evidence of wrongdoing to search the contents of passengers' laptop computers, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. Reinstating child pornography evidence against a passenger at Los Angeles International Airport, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said a computer is no different from a suitcase, a car or any other piece of property subject to search at an international border."

And law.com reports that "9th Circuit OKs Border Guards' Search of Traveler's Laptop."

My earlier coverage of yesterday's Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).