For example, ifthe plaintiff, the complaining party, wanted toobtain redress for injuriesto himself orhis property, hewouldpay for the issueof a writof trespass.
Emphasizing the Fourth Amendment's "close connection toproperty, " Justice Scalia wrote that even a small trespass, if committed in "an attempt to find something or to obtain information, " constituted a "search" under the Fourth Amendment.