{"id":35309,"date":"2018-10-31T07:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35309"},"modified":"2018-10-31T07:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:24:15","slug":"ca9-using-ruse-to-gain-entry-for-civil-investigation-and-surreptitious-video-recording-was-a-search-but-qi-applies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35309","title":{"rendered":"CA9: Using ruse to gain entry for civil investigation and surreptitious video recording was a &#8220;search,&#8221; but QI applies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The use of a ruse to get consent to enter plaintiff\u2019s house to conduct a civil fraud investigation violated the Fourth Amendment. The surreptitious use of a video recorder was a \u201csearch.\u201d However, it was not clearly established at the time, so he gets qualified immunity. <a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov\/datastore\/opinions\/2018\/10\/30\/17-35267.pdf\">Whalen v. McMullen<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 30686 (9th Cir. Oct. 30, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of a ruse to get consent to enter plaintiff\u2019s house to conduct a civil fraud investigation violated the Fourth Amendment. The surreptitious use of a video recorder was a \u201csearch.\u201d However, it was not clearly established at the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=35309\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309","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=35309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35310,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35309\/revisions\/35310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}