Lock your doors -- no emoting allowed.

 Washington, May 22. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday that the police do not need a warrant to enter a private home to break up a fight in which injuries have occurred or are foreseeable.

The decision, which overturned a ruling by the Utah Supreme Court, was an example of something that the justices often declare to be unworthy of their time and attention, but that they engage in regularly nonetheless: the simple correction of a lower court's error.
"We think the officers' entry here was plainly reasonable under the circumstances," Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in his opinion for the court after describing the facts of the case. These included sounds of "thumping and crashing" and cries of "stop, stop" and "get off me" filling the night air as four Brigham City police officers approached a home where neighbors had called to complain about a loud party.

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