Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-via!lasher From: lasher@via.DEC (Lew Lasher - DTN 381-2651) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Yes, Virginia, there is a constitutional right to privacy Message-ID: <3111@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 10:07:20 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3111 Posted: Mon Jul 15 10:07:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 06:24:23 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 17 "[T]he fact is that 1) there is no such thing as a 'constitutional right to privacy'; and 2) the Supreme Court is the final arbitor (sic) of how the Constitution is to be applied ...." My copy of the U.S. Constitution comes complete with a Fourth Amendment, which protects me from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. This sounds pretty much like a "constitutional right to privacy" to me, as it does to most Supreme Court justices. I think what you were trying to say is that there is no "*ABSOLUTE* constitutional right to privacy" which is hardly newsworthy, since the frontier between a reasonable search and an unreasonable one is a battlefield over which controversies have prolonged for decades. Lew Lasher