In re Search of 3817 W. West End, 321 F. Supp. 2d 953 (N.D. Ill. 2004)

Key Insight: Government required to submit a proposed protocol for searching the contents of seized computer hard drive and disks before it could conduct any search; court observed that government essentially sought “a license to roam through everything in the computer without limitation and without standards,” and that such a request failed to satisfy the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment

Nature of Case: Suspected tax fraud

Electronic Data Involved: Computer hard drive and computer disks