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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > American politics and society > Fourth Amendment > Fourth Amendment issues > welfare searches

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welfare searches  

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  • In Wyman v. James (1971), a case that has not been overruled, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the government could suspend payments to a mother receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) if the mother refused to submit to home visits by a caseworker. The Court's decision, authored by Justice Harry Blackmun, offered eleven different rationales for its ruling, most centering on the state's concern for the protection of children and the noncriminal nature of the visits. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Welfare Searches]

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