The following excerpt is from Southerland v. City of New York, 667 F.3d 87 (2nd Cir. 2012):
in original; other internal quotation marks omitted). We then concluded that the daughter's removal and her examination constituted a seizure and search, respectively, under the Fourth Amendment, id., and that her claim therefore must be analyzed under the standard appropriate to [the Fourth Amendment], not under the rubric of substantive due process. Id. (quoting United States v. Lanier, 520 U.S. 259, 272 n. 7, 117 S.Ct. 1219, 137 L.Ed.2d 432 (1997)).29
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