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326. OKLAHOMA PRESS VS.

WALLING, 327 US 186


(Of Whatever Nature and for Any Purpose)
FACTS:
The provisions of 11(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, authorizing the Administrator
to investigate conditions and practices of employment in any industry subject to the Act,
and of 9, incorporating the provisions of 9 of the Federal Trade Commission Act
authorizing the issuance and judicial enforcement of subpoenas, were challenge by the
petitioners, contending that they violate the prohibitions of the Fourth Amendment
against unreasonable searches and seizures or any other provision of the Constitution.
Said law applies to business of publishing and distributing newspapers like the herein
Petitioners. Respondent conducted an investigation pursuant to the above-mentioned
law against the petitioners.
ISSUE:
Whether or not the Fair Labor standard Act violates the fourth amendment.
HELD:
No. The Fourth Amendment, if applicable, guards against abuse only by way of too
much indefiniteness or breadth in the things required to be "particularly described," if the
inquiry is one the demanding agency is authorized by law to make and the materials
specified are relevant, the gist of the protection being the requirement that the
disclosure sought shall not be unreasonable. There was no violation of petitioners' rights
in these cases, since both petitioners were corporations; the only records or documents
sought were corporate ones; no element of self-incrimination was presented or claimed;
all the records sought were relevant to an inquiry for the purpose of determining
whether petitioners were subject to the Act and, if so, whether they were violating it; and
such an inquiry was authorized by 11(a) of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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