
Utah v. Strieff
5-4
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Is There a Fourth Amendment in Tort Law?
Tort laws like, you know, if you slip and fall in a Walmart parking lot, they can put salt down during the winter and so ice built up and you slipped and you found you hurt yourself. That's a tort. Fourth Amendment was treated similarly as treated like a trespass, essentially. And her point is that this idea of like intervening circumstances and attenuation has its roots in tort law and something called proximate causation.
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