United States Second Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's claim that defendant transportation company's practice of searching the carry-on baggage of randomly selected passengers and inspecting randomly selected vehicles, including their trunks, under the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002, violated plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights is affirmed as the searches at issue did not violate plaintiffs' rights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/29/2006
• Published 11/30/2006

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before WINTER, POOLER, and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Nelson, Cooperating Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, Middlebury, VT, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Douglas N. Letter, Appellate Litigation Counsel, Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington D.C., and Michael Brow, Sylvester & Maley, Inc., Burlington, VT (Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Washington, D.C.;  David V. Kirby, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont;  Carol L. Shea, Assistant United States Attorney, Burlington, VT on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.