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Article: Square Pegs, Round Hole: The Fourth Amendment and Preflight Searches of Airline Passengers in a Post-9/11 World
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- Brigham Young University Law Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Brigham Young University, Reuben Clark Law School 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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I. INTRODUCTION
September 11, 2001 marked a day of tragedy on which thousands of people lost their lives. As a result, the dangers of hijacking became a heightened subject of concern for America. The detection and detention of would-be hijackers is now a greater priority than in prior times, and the government has implemented many new measures-such as increased security at airports-to accomplish this goal.1 However, these increased security measures,2 often in the form of precautionary, suspicionless searches made without warrants, lead to a hard question regarding personal privacy and the right to travel. Are these preflight passenger searches constitutional under the Fourth Amendment?3
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