Zurcher v. Stanford Daily

After the Stanford Daily (plaintiff) photographed a violent confrontation involving police, a warrant was issued to search its newsroom offices for the photographs, though the newspaper itself was not suspected of any wrongdoing; the paper argued the search implicated First Amendment press protections and that a subpoena would have sufficed.

Whether issuing a search warrant for a newspaper's office, when the search could instead be conducted via subpoena, violates constitutional protections.