Thanks for spotting an issue – the contractual issues (and perhaps state law or municipal regulations) are, in a real-world case, definitely things we’d want to look at – post haste. Your characterization of your own comment as “unhelpful,” however, is off the mark.

It’s my intention to take the same fact-pattern and alter it in two ways (parallel, not combined):

(1) assume there’s a plausible safety issue – for instance, chemicals which could be used to make an explosive;

(2) Assume no safety or terrorism issue – and change the storage center to an ISP.

For present purposes, it’s fact variant (2) that I want to examine closely and about which I’d like to generate further conversation.

Jon

Further inquiry might determine that the storage unit lease grants the lessor the right to gain entrance in furtherance of a police investigation. In that event, the lessor may be permitted to afford such access to law enforcement without the necessity of resolving constitutional considerations.

Regarding the clients, you are right. There is not much description. There is always a big debate about how much to put in regard to your clients. If you don’t put up enough, it looks like you don’t have any. If you put all your clients up, your competitors try to steal them (This has happened to us a lot). We figure our work stands on its own, so we will not be fearful about losing clients.