Ginger Owns a Business That Is Comprehensively Regulated by a Federal

question 9

Multiple Choice

Ginger owns a business that is comprehensively regulated by a federal agency.One day,a federal inspector arrives at Ginger's business without advance warning and begins to conduct a search,taking several samples of some products Ginger is manufacturing.Ginger claims this is a violation of her constitutional rights.How would a court likely rule?

• A)A court is unlikely to hear the case at all because actions of federal agencies are not subject to judicial review.
• B)Although agencies can conduct warrantless searches under certain circumstances,they cannot do so if a business is comprehensively regulated.
• C)Because the business is comprehensively regulated,a court will assume that Ginger knows that her business is subject to periodic,unannounced inspections.
• D)A court will agree that the agency violated Ginger's rights because the Fourth Amendment states that the right of the people to be secure in their persons,houses,papers,and effects,against unreasonable searches and seizures,shall not be violated.

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