United States v. Rapanos
ELR Citation: ELR 20961 No(s). 95-1269 (6th Cir. May 28, 1997)
The court holds that under the open fields doctrine, state natural resource officials may enter a landowner's property to conduct a warrantless inspection of wetlands on the property without violating the landowner's Fourth Amendment rights. The court finds that the 175-acre property that the landow...