Torres v. Puerto Rico

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Torres v. Puerto Rico
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued January 10, 1979 Decided June 18, 1979
Full case name	Torres v. Puerto Rico
Citations	442 U.S. 465 (more) 99 S. Ct. 2425; 61 L. Ed. 2d 1; 1979 U.S. LEXIS 111
Case history
Subsequent	None
Holding
The Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure applies to Puerto Rico.
Court membership
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Associate Justices William J. Brennan Jr. · Potter Stewart Byron White · Thurgood Marshall Harry Blackmun · Lewis F. Powell Jr. William Rehnquist · John P. Stevens
Case opinions
Majority	Burger, joined by White, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens
Concurrence	Brennan (in judgment), joined by Stewart, Marshall, Blackmun
Laws applied
Fourth Amendment; Pub. Law 22, P. R. Laws Ann., Tit. 25, § 1051 et seq. (Supp. 1977)

Torres v. Puerto Rico, 442 U.S. 465 (1979), was a United States Supreme Court case holding that the Fourth Amendment guarantee against unreasonable search and seizure applies to Puerto Rico.^[1]