Case Scenario: Samson v. California
Q1. Identify the government's "special needs" and Donald Curtis Samson's diminished expectations of privacy as they relate to the privacy ideal?
Q2. Summarize the interrogation of the majority that support its decision that the government's special needs justify reducing the ideal of privacy in parolees' homes without either warrants or reasonable suspicion?
Q3. Summarize the dissent's argument that searches of parolees' homes without either warrants or reasonable suspicion unduly invade parolees' privacy ideal in their homes?
Q4. Both the Majority and Dissent use empirical evidence to support their decisions. Which argument best interrogates that empirical evidence? Explain.