{"id":62703,"date":"2026-01-07T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62703"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:11:36","slug":"s-d-n-y-investigative-medical-exams-implicate-4a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62703","title":{"rendered":"S.D.N.Y.: Investigative medical exams implicate 4A"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe Fourth Amendment is implicated when medical examinations are undertaken at the initiative of a state official for an investigatory purpose. See Tenenbaum v. Williams, 193 F.3d 581, 606 (2d Cir. 1999) (holding that the Fourth Amendment applies to \u2018searches and seizures,\u2019 including medical examinations, \u2018made in the course of child abuse investigations\u2019). Investigative medical examinations conducted without parental consent or judicial authorization violate the Constitution unless \u2018reasonable or probable cause or exigent circumstances justifying an emergency examination\u2019 existed at the time the examination was performed.\u201d McInnis v. City of N.Y., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 269192 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 19, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s Franks claim is denied as conclusory and lacking any allegation of prejudice. United States v. Boyle, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 318 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 5, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crossing the fog line generally supports a stop in this circuit. United States v. Seakor, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 879 (D.S.D. Jan. 2, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Fourth Amendment is implicated when medical examinations are undertaken at the initiative of a state official for an investigatory purpose. See Tenenbaum v. Williams, 193 F.3d 581, 606 (2d Cir. 1999) (holding that the Fourth Amendment applies to \u2018searches &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62703\">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":[21,35,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-franks-doctrine","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62703","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=62703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62704,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62703\/revisions\/62704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}