{"id":62258,"date":"2025-11-06T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62258"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T15:43:31","slug":"n-d-tex-merely-being-a-federal-contractor-doesnt-make-employers-search-state-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62258","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Tex.: Merely being a federal contractor doesn&#8217;t make employer&#8217;s search state action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Being a federal contractor wasn\u2019t enough to make defendant food service company a state actor. Ellis v. Ben E. Keith Co., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217957 (N.D. Tex. Oct. 1, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers had a warrant for the place searched and found defendant\u2019s bag in a cooler there, one he had on him earlier. It was covered by the warrant where it was found. United States v. Alston, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 218079 (D.S.C. Nov. 5, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consent isn\u2019t involuntary just because the officer has the defendant\u2019s ID when asked. <a href=\"https:\/\/flcourts-media.flcourts.gov\/content\/download\/2471077\/opinion\/Opinion_2024-1103.pdf\">Torralba v. State<\/a>, 2025 Fla. App. LEXIS 8324 (Fla. 3d DCA Nov. 5, 2025).* (Interestingly, this opinion is a string of quotes from other cases following \u201cAffirmed.\u201d I saw that once before in a fictional opinion in the NLJ back in the 1990s. Surely they\u2019ve done this before, but I just haven\u2019t seen it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a federal contractor wasn\u2019t enough to make defendant food service company a state actor. Ellis v. Ben E. Keith Co., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217957 (N.D. Tex. Oct. 1, 2025). Officers had a warrant for the place searched and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,43,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-private-search","category-scope-of-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62260,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62258\/revisions\/62260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}