Case Law Index
federal1976
Additional Highlights:Fourth AmendmentBank RecordsThird Party Doctrine
United States v. Miller
United States Supreme Court
Key Holding
A depositor has no protectable Fourth Amendment interest in financial records held by a bank because the records belong to the bank, not the customer.
Case Summary
United States v. Miller established the third-party doctrine as applied to bank records, holding that bank customers have no reasonable expectation of privacy in their financial records held by the bank, since the information is voluntarily conveyed to bank employees in the ordinary course of business.