{"id":63775,"date":"2026-04-04T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63775"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:50:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T16:50:49","slug":"c-d-cal-overbroad-and-indefinite-subpoenas-can-have-4a-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63775","title":{"rendered":"C.D.Cal.: Overbroad and indefinite subpoenas can have 4A implications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Supreme Court has recognized that overbroad or indefinite subpoenas can have Fourth Amendment implications. United States v. Baass, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73143, at *16 n.9 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 4, 2026) (\u00a7\u200949.04 n.6):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Supreme Court has applied Fourth Amendment reasonableness requirements to administrative subpoenas. See, e.g., McLane, 581 U.S. at 84 (&#8220;To be sure, we have described a subpoena as a &#8216;constructive search&#8217; \u2026 and implied that the Fourth Amendment is the source of the requirement that a subpoena not be &#8216;too indefinite[.]'&#8221; (citation modified)); See v. City of Seattle, 387 U.S. 541, 544 (1967) (&#8220;It is now settled that, when an administrative agency subpoenas corporate books or records, the Fourth Amendment requires that the subpoena be sufficiently limited in scope, relevant in purpose, and specific in directive so that compliance will not be unreasonably burdensome.&#8221;); Walling, 327 U.S. at 208 (&#8220;The gist of the [Fourth Amendment] protection is in the requirement, expressed in terms, that the disclosure sought shall not be unreasonable.&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has recognized that overbroad or indefinite subpoenas can have Fourth Amendment implications. United States v. Baass, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73143, at *16 n.9 (C.D. Cal. Mar. 4, 2026) (\u00a7\u200949.04 n.6):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-overbreadth","category-subpoenas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63775","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=63775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63777,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63775\/revisions\/63777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}