The following excerpt is from Anobile v. Pelligrino, 274 F.3d 45 (2nd Cir. 2000):
Indeed, coercion may be found where one is given a choice between one's employment and one's constitutional rights. Cf. Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493, 496 (1967) ("The choice imposed on petitioners was one between self-incrimination or job forfeiture. Coercion that vitiates a confession... can be mental as well as physical; the blood of the accused is not the only hallmark of an unconstitutional inquisition. Subtle pressures may be as telling as coarse and vulgar ones.") (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). On the other hand, as we noted in Security and Law Enforcement Employees, such advance notice of a possible search are "factors to be taken into account in determining the extent of the legitimate expectations of privacy." Sec. and Law Enforcement Officers, 737 F.2d at 202 n.23. In this instance, however, we have already concluded that the notice of a possible "room" search, contained in the license applications and the regulation itself, did not sufficiently reduce the legitimate expectation of privacy that the dormitory residents possessed with respect to their homes such that a warrantless search was permissible.
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