The following excerpt is from Ortega v. O'Connor, 146 F.3d 1149 (9th Cir. 1998):
One point emerges clearly: [Such papers] involve the most fundamental First and Fourth Amendment interests.... Indeed, where papers or books are the subject of a government intrusion, our cases uniformly hold that the Fourth Amendment prohibition against a general search [forbids an] "indiscriminate sweep ..." [of such articles]. Stanford v. Texas, 379 U.S. 476, 486, 85 S.Ct. 506, 13 L.Ed.2d 431 (1965).
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