{"id":26933,"date":"2017-04-25T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26933"},"modified":"2017-04-26T09:21:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:21:22","slug":"e-d-la-swabbing-car-door-handle-for-dna-without-a-sw-is-a-trespass-to-chattels-and-barred-by-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26933","title":{"rendered":"E.D.La.: Swabbing car door handle for DNA without a SW is a trespass to chattels and barred by Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swabbing a car door handle for DNA was a trespass against the plaintiff\u2019s vehicle under Jones. A trespass to land is governed by the Fourth Amendment under Jardines and trespass to chattels is under Jones. Damage doesn\u2019t have to occur for it to be a Fourth Amendment issue. In a civil action, however, the rule wasn\u2019t well established on facts similar to this, and the officers get qualified immunity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/04\/schmidt_order-and-reasons.pdf?tid=a_inl\">Schmidt v. Stassi<\/a>, 2:16-cv-15902-LMA-JCW (E.D. La. April 19, 2017). (Noted in and h\/t to WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2017\/04\/24\/swabbing-a-car-door-handle-in-a-public-lot-to-collect-dna-is-a-fourth-amendment-trespass-search\/?utm_term=.b089391506a8\">Swabbing a car door handle in a public lot to collect DNA is a Fourth Amendment trespass search<\/a> by Orin Kerr) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swabbing a car door handle for DNA was a trespass against the plaintiff\u2019s vehicle under Jones. A trespass to land is governed by the Fourth Amendment under Jardines and trespass to chattels is under Jones. Damage doesn\u2019t have to occur &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26933\">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":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trespass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26950,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26933\/revisions\/26950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}