Question

In Trinity Marine Products v. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, Trinity Marine turned away OSHA compliance officers who had come to conduct an inspection. OSHA obtained an administrative warrant and came back with federal marshals. Trinity officials allowed the search under protest and later filed suit alleging that the warrant had been obtained without probable cause. The court held that the probable cause standard for administrative warrants is

Answer 1

lower than that for criminal warrants and the warrant could be executed using a reasonable degree of force

Step-by-step explanation:

Based on the scenario being described within the question it can be said that they are lower than that for criminal warrants and the warrant could be executed using a reasonable degree of force. Meaning that the police officers needed very little reason to obtain an administrative warrant and if needed they were allowed to break into the property by force in the likely scenario that the owner would not allow them passage into the property.