Brigham City v. Stuart
The Supreme Court handed down a Fourth Amendment exigent circumstances case this morning: Brigham City v. Stuart. In a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice Roberts (hmm, there’s that phrase again*), the Court held that the “police may enter a home without a warrant when they have an objectively reasonable basis for believing that an occupant is seriously injured or imminently threatened with such injury.” Justice Stevens concurred, explaining that he thought this was an “odd flyspeck of a case” that the Court shouldn’t have agreed to hear in the first place.
* In light of the Chief’s apparent skill at writing opinions the entire Court will join, maybe we need an acronym for this. Perhaps, “ROUC,” Roberts Opinion for A Unanimous Court? “ROUT” would be better, but I can’t come up with a “T” word that really fits.
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