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3.9 Amendments: Due Process and the Right to Privacy

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Question 1

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Police obtain the contents of a person's phone through government investigative technology. Which approach best begins the constitutional analysis?

Police are government actors, and acquisition of phone contents for investigation begins with the Fourth Amendment's search-and-seizure framework. A general appeal to privacy does not replace the specific constitutional source and its doctrine.
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A. Apply the Fourth Amendment search framework to the government acquisition

Police are government actors, and acquisition of phone contents for investigation begins with the Fourth Amendment's search-and-seizure framework. A general appeal to privacy does not replace the specific constitutional source and its doctrine.

Question 2

Question 2 of 4

A privately operated health application discloses a user's information without government direction or participation. Which statement is most accurate?

The federal Constitution ordinarily restrains government rather than a private application's independent conduct. A claimant must identify a statute, contract, tort rule, or state-law protection that covers the application and conduct. Sensitive data and widespread use do not create state action, HIPAA does not cover every application or supply the asserted universal private damages action, and the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments do not directly regulate the stated private disclosure.
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B. The claim ordinarily requires a statutory, contractual, tort, or state-law source that reaches the private actor

The federal Constitution ordinarily restrains government rather than a private application's independent conduct. A claimant must identify a statute, contract, tort rule, or state-law protection that covers the application and conduct. Sensitive data and widespread use do not create state action, HIPAA does not cover every application or supply the asserted universal private damages action, and the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments do not directly regulate the stated private disclosure.

Question 3

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Which statement most accurately describes the Supreme Court's holding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization?

Dobbs overruled Roe and Casey and held that the Constitution does not itself confer a right to abortion. It did not decide every possible statutory or other constitutional issue.
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C. The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, so the issue generally returns to the political process subject to other law

Dobbs overruled Roe and Casey and held that the Constitution does not itself confer a right to abortion. It did not decide every possible statutory or other constitutional issue.

Question 4

Question 4 of 4

A claimant argues that government may not prohibit a protected personal decision even if it provides a perfectly fair hearing before imposing the prohibition. The claim is primarily one of

Substantive due process asks whether government may invade a protected liberty at all; procedural due process asks what process must precede a deprivation.
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D. substantive due process

Substantive due process asks whether government may invade a protected liberty at all; procedural due process asks what process must precede a deprivation.

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