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                    USA: Supreme Court Rejects Unlimited Government Access to Hotel Records 
                    04 July 2015
                    
                    
"The default rule under the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against “unreasonable searches and seizures” is that the government must get a warrant to compel an individual to turn over his or her “papers,” unless an exception applies. One such exception is for so-called administrative searches, which generally must have a regulatory, as opposed to criminal, purpose."
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Supreme Court Rejects Unlimited Government Access to Hotel Records (pdf)