[net.legal] Yes, Virginia, there is a constitutional right to privacy

lasher@via.DEC (Lew Lasher - DTN 381-2651) (07/15/85)

	"[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