Repeat Searches of Slate Quarry Upheld

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 17, 2012

Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Roger L. Gregory, Search & Seizure

A Virginia slate quarry that was subjected to 25 warrantless inspections of its mining operations over a seven-month period under the state’s Mineral and Mine Safety Act and cited for 32 violations has no civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for illegal searches because neither the Act authorizing the searches nor conduct of ...

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