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Soldal v. Cook County - Impact

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The decision in Soldal made it slightly easier to make civil rights claims against the government under the Fourth Amendment. The ruling also clarified the Court's understanding of the Fourth Amendment. It is not, as it seemed to hint in prior cases such as Hayden and Katz, an amendment concerned only with the protection of privacy. Instead, the Court instructed, the amendment was designed to protect against "the intrusion on the people's security from governmental interference."

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