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Legal Citation: 387 U.S. 541 (1967)

Appellant
See

Appellee
City of Seattle

Appellant's Claim
That the city of Seattle Fire Department must have a search warrant consistent with the safeguards against unreasonable search offered by the Fourth Amendment to perform a fire code inspection of a locked private warehouse.

Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Norman Dorsen

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
A. L. Newbould

Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, Earl Warren, Byron R. White (writing for the Court)

Justices Dissenting
Tom C. Clark, John Marshall Harlan II, Potter Stewart

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
5 June 1967

Decision
Upheld See's claim and overturned two lower courts' decisions allowing entry...