Katz v. United States

I'm going to leave it at the end of this video as well.

But in order for chat read to really make sense, Again, you gotta know the foundation, you gotta know CATS.

So that's what I wanna do today, is I wanna go back and I wanna look at the case of CATS, just kinda briefly, because CATS was, the opinion was very short.

I loved some of the opinions back in those days.

Three or four pages is all you need instead of this 30 page crap that we get now.

So, the way that I like to frame it is like, okay, let's start with the idea of we have this two-part test, so let's apply it to a common situation.

Let's say, for example, you have a backpack here.

Would it be a search to look in there? Of course it would be, but why? Well, you would apply the CATS test to it.

There are exceptions, yes, but they are incredibly specific.

To find them, we look at a landmark case called Jones v.

United States.

Okay.

What did Jones do?

Well, the Jones case is the absolute pillar of omission liability.

It lays out five very distinct circumstances where the law says no, in this specific situation, you actually do have a legal duty to act.

So if one of these five duties exists, you have to help.