California v. Carney

California v. Carney
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued October 30, 1984 Decided May 13, 1985
Full case name	California v. Carney
Citations	471 U.S. 386 (more) 105 S. Ct. 2066; 85 L. Ed. 2d 406; 53 U.S.L.W. 4521
Case history
Prior	34 Cal. 3d 597, 668 P.2d 807 (Cal. 1983) (reversed and remanded)
Holding
A motor home is subject to the automobile exception to the 4th Amendment search warrant requirement because it is readily movable.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor
Case opinions
Majority	Burger, joined by White, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, O'Connor
Dissent	Stevens, joined by Brennan, Marshall
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV

California v. Carney, 471 U.S. 386 (1985), was a United States Supreme Court case which held that a motor home was subject to the automobile exception to the search warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution because the motor home was readily movable.

The dissent argues that this is contrary to the bright line rule established in Katz v. United States and that the majority opinion violates the protection of privacy rights provided by the Fourth Amendment.^[1]