Scope and Contents From the File: The ACLU filed an amicus brief in this case, which concerns the warrant requirements of the state and federal constitutions and the question of whether these requirements permit police searches "into areas ordinarily private from government scrutiny" without consent of the person being searched, excepting extenuating circumstances which make a search warrant impossible. More specifically, they tackled the question of "the automobile exception," and the "inherent mobility of vehicles which...