United States Ninth Circuit

In the context of airport screening searches, once a passenger enters the secured area of an airport, the constitutionality of a screening search does not depend on consent. To the extent any cases have have predicated the reasonableness of an airport screening search upon either ongoing consent or irrevocable implied consent, they are overruled.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/21/2007
• Decided 08/10/2007
• Published 08/10/2007

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.