The Fourth Amendment proscribes unreasonable seizure of any person, person's home (including its curtilage) or personal property without a warrant. A seizure of property occurs when there is "some meaningful interference with an individual's possessory interests in that property,"Jacobsen, 466 U.S. at 113. such as when police officers take personal property away from an owner to use as evidence, or when they participate in an eviction.Soldal v. Cook County, . "The right against unreasonable seizures would be no less transgressed if the seizure of the house was undertaken to collect evidence, verify compliance with a housing regulation, effect an eviction by the police, or on a whim, for no reason at all." The amendment also protects against unreasonable seizure of persons, including a brief detention.
The Fourth Amendment proscribes unreasonable seizure of any person, person's home (including its curtilage) or personal property without a warrant A seizure of property occurs when there is "some meaningful interference with an individual's poss.essory interests in that property,"Jacobsen, 466 U.S. at 113. such as when police officers take personal property away from an owner to use as evidence, or when they participate in an eviction.Soldal v. Coo.k County,  "The right against unreasonable seizures would be no less transgressed if the seizure of the house was undertaken to collect evidence, verify compliance with a housing regulation, effect an eviction by the police, or on a whim, for no reason at all." The amendment also protects against unreasonable seizure of persons, including a brief detention.