City of Los Angeles v. Patel

City of Los Angeles v. Patel
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 3, 2015 Decided June 22, 2015
Full case name	City of Los Angeles, Cal. v. Patel, et al.
Docket no.	13-1175
Citations	576 U.S. 409 (more) 135 S. Ct. 2443; 192 L. Ed. 2d 435
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Prior	2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78914 (C.D. Cal. Sept. 5, 2008); affirmed, 686 F.3d 1085 (9th Cir. 2012); reversed on rehearing en banc, 738 F.3d 1058 (9th Cir. 2013); cert. granted, 135 S. Ct. 400 (2014).
Holding
Los Angeles Municipal Code § 41.49, which requires hotel operators to record and keep specific information about their guests on the premises for a ninety-day period and to make those records available to "any officer of the Los Angeles Police Department for inspection" on demand, is facially unconstitutional because it fails to provide the operators with an opportunity for pre-compliance review.
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas · Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer · Samuel Alito Sonia Sotomayor · Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Majority	Sotomayor, joined by Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan
Dissent	Scalia, joined by Roberts, Thomas
Dissent	Alito, joined by Thomas
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV; U.S. Const. amend. XIV; Los Angeles Mun. Code § 41.49

Los Angeles v. Patel, 576 U.S. 409 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that a Los Angeles law, Municipal Code § 41.49, requiring hotel operators to retain records about guests for a ninety-day period is facially unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution because it does not allow for pre-compliance review.^[1]