Antonin Scalia
Role at the time: Associate justice writing the Supreme Court's majority opinion
Condemned
Statement summary
The majority opinion holds that this use of thermal imaging was a search, presumptively unreasonable without a warrant.
“Since we hold the Thermovision imaging to have been an unlawful search, it will remain for the District Court to determine whether, without the evidence it provided, the search warrant issued in this case was supported by probable cause”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)Scalia's majority opinion in KylloConclusion of the opinion, 533 U.S. at 40
The majority explains its warrant rule for the technology used in this case.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
Scalia's majority opinion expressly holds that the thermal imaging of the home was an unlawful search.