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The Supreme Court heard oral argument in five Fourth Amendment cases in the recently completed Term.   The Court dismissed one case as improvidently granted and didn’t reach the merits of the Fourth Amendment issue in a second case.  In the three cases that did reach the merits, however, the government’s side readily won: 8-0, 8-1, and 7-2.   Justice Alito wrote two of the three majority opinions, and Justice Scalia wrote the third.

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