United States Ninth Circuit

A prospective commercial airline passenger, who presents no identification at check-in, and who voluntarily walks through a metal detector without setting off an alarm, cannot then prevent a government-ordered secondary screening search by stating he has decided not to fly and wants to leave the terminal.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/21/2007
• Decided 03/17/2006
• Published 03/17/2006

Judges

• Before:  MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, ALEX KOZINSKI, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, HAWKINS, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, SUSAN P. GRABER, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, W. FLETCHER, RONALD M. GOULD, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, JAY S. BYBEE, CONSUELO M. CALLAHAN, CARLOS T. BEA, and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Pamela O'Leary Tower, Esq., Honolulu, HI, for defendant-appellant Daniel Kuualoha Aukai., Thomas J. Brady, Esq., Assistant United States Attorney, District of Hawaii and John A. Drennan, Esq, United States Department of Justice Criminal Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee the United States of America.