Reynolds v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• holding that there was no reasonable expectation of privacy for a loud conversation in a hotel room that could be heard in adjoining rooms
• Overhearing a loud conversation in a hotel was not a search.
• if court can find that a provision rationally furthers any legitimate objective, it is constitutionally irrelevant whether this reason in fact underlies the decision to pass the provision
• a mandatory retirement provision “eliminates the unpleasantness of selectively removing aged ... judges”
• Pennsylvania constitutional provisions requiring retirement of judges at 70 upheld as rational
• evidence that defendant possessed cocaine for own use
• no fundamental interest in public employment