United States Ninth Circuit

Government efforts to ensure compliance with a forthwith records subpoena, and to ensure that records were not being shredded, did not fall under the O'Connor exception to the warrant requirement, and instead gave rise to an illegal search of a city office by agents; illegal entry into employee's office tainted her consent given later.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/12/2002
• Decided 04/18/2002
• Published 04/18/2002

Judges

• Before SNEED, BRUNETTI and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• J. Douglas Wilson, Assistant United States Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Keker and Steven A. Hirsch, Keker & Van Nest, San Francisco, CA, for the appellee.