Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Title II amended the U.S. Code to allow a magistrate judge to issue a warrant outside of their district for any orders that relate to terrorism (section 219). Section 220 of the title also gave a Federal court judge the power to issue nationwide service of search warrants for electronic surveillance.
The Treasury Department announced Thursday the sale of $1.54 billion worth of warrants on Bank of America (BAC) stock. Treasury owned the warrants as a result of the governments' financial bailout ...
The Act allowed any district court judge in the United States to issue such surveillance orders [27] and search warrants for terrorism investigations. [29] Search warrants were also expanded, with the Act amending Title III of the Stored Communications Access Act to allow the FBI to gain access to stored voicemail through a search warrant ...
Followed by the states in 1791, the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution was enacted in 1792, holding: . The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place ...
A search warrant is a court order that a magistrate or judge issues to authorize law enforcement officers to conduct a search of a person, location, or vehicle for evidence of a crime and to confiscate any evidence they find. In most countries, a search warrant cannot be issued in aid of civil process.
The redacted search warrant affidavit, along with a redacted copy of the legal brief that justified redactions to the affidavit, [n] were unsealed and made public on August 26. [196] [197] The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN released annotated versions of the search warrant affidavit as well. [198] [199] [4]
[13] Yet, if the Capital Purchase Program warrants of Goldman Sachs are representative, then the Capital Purchase Program warrants were worth between $5 billion and $24 billion as of May 1, 2009. Thus canceling the CPP warrants amounts to a $5-billion-to-$24-billion subsidy to the banking industry at taxpayers' expense. [14]
Johnson v. United States, 333 U.S. 10 (1948), was a significant United States Supreme Court decision addressing search warrants and the Fourth Amendment.In this case, where federal agents had probable cause to search a hotel room but did not obtain a warrant, the Court declared the search was "unreasonable."