The following excerpt is from United States v. Grey, 959 F.3d 1166 (9th Cir. 2020):
Thus, when the programmatic purpose of an administrative scheme violates the Fourth Amendment, no search conducted pursuant to that scheme is constitutional.7 But what if the programmatic purpose of an administrative scheme complies with the Fourth Amendment? In that instance, the inquiry shifts. We still do not examine the subjective motivations of the government official. See United States v. McCarty , 648 F.3d 820, 833 (9th Cir. 2011) ("[W]here a warrantless search is conducted pursuant to a lawful administrative scheme with a constitutionally permissible motivation, the subjective motive of the
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