On Wednesday, September 26, 2001, at 12:06 AM, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote:

Unless you live in an apartment, and they have the permission of the landlord...

Actually, in that case, could they not get the landlord to unlock the apartment door for them, if "permission to enter" is granted in your lease? What are the warrant requirements for this?

The Fourth still applies, even to hotel and motel residents (where the owner of course enters on a daily basis). If it did not apply, then entire hotels and motels and apartment buildings would be swept for contraband, illegal sex material, drugs, guns, etc. There was a controversial case in Chicago, which may still be pending, where the Housing Authority (?) was proposing to sweep the apartments it administered for guns. Civil libertarians pointed out the issues. --Tim May