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Case Report - NB judge grants Charter motion to exclude evidence on seized hard drive
On June 2nd, a New Brunswick Provincial Court judge excluded evidence on a hard drive obtained by the Canada Revenue Agency pursuant to a search warrant. The dispute related to files that were stored … more »
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Employer Conducted Searches
rusier wrote 4 days ago: Question: I have been working as a government employee in Sacramento, California for around se … more »
Search of Marital Home
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rusier wrote 4 days ago: My House Is My Castle Mr. X asks: I want to know if my wife can give permission to the police t … more »
Case Report - NB judge grants Charter motion to exclude evidence on seized hard drive
Dan Michaluk wrote 2 weeks ago: On June 2nd, a New Brunswick Provincial Court judge excluded evidence on a hard drive obtained by th … more »
DWI charges and Whiskey Plates
John Scott wrote 1 month ago: Minnesota drivers with multiple DWI offenses may have to drive vehicles with special plates. These … more »
The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft
kbooks wrote 2 months ago: As chief counsel of the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee, Sam Dash challenged the Nixon administratio … more »
Are Safe Deposit Boxes Not Only Useless but Dangerously Misleading?
canuck99 wrote 2 months ago: This article is pegged to a current class-action lawsuit against the State of California. It appears … more »
Miranda Rights: The Right to Remain Silent
John Scott wrote 2 months ago: “You have the right to remain silent.” Every person in American has heard this phrase. It is in … more »
Two in-depth comments on the sniffer dog cases worth reading
Dan Michaluk wrote 2 months ago: Case analysis takes time, and my aim with this blog is typically to limited to posting case reports … more »
Case Report - Companion sniffer dog cases establish reasonable suspicion search standard
Dan Michaluk wrote 3 months ago: On April 25th, the Supreme Court of Canada released two decisions involving Charter challenges to sn … more »
Ninth Circuit Rules that Laptop Searches Don't Require Reasonable Suspicion
benjohnson71 wrote 3 months ago: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that the Ninth Circuit has recently held in United S … more »
SCC releases school search decision
Dan Michaluk wrote 3 months ago: The Supreme Court has just dismissed the appeal in R. v. A.M., a significant decision on school sear … more »
AP Misinterprets Supreme Court Ruling
tsfiles wrote 3 months ago: Today reporter Pete Yost at the Associated Press wrote a paranoid story with a paranoid title leadin … more »
US Supreme Court Rules In VA Case--Search & Seizure
Bill wrote 3 months ago: From VA Lawyers Weekly The Issue: “Whether VA police officer violates the Fourth Amendment by … more »
Case Report - Propriety of border crossing laptop search affirmed on appeal
Dan Michaluk wrote 3 months ago: Yesterday, the Ninth United States Circuit Court of Appeals overturned much-discussed order to suppr … more »
Chain of Custody Criminal Defense
John Scott wrote 3 months ago: In establishing a conviction for controlled substaces, such as marijuanna, the prosecutors need to e … more »
Permissible Assaults Cited in Graphic Detail
Abu Zaynab wrote 3 months ago: This shouldnt come as a big surprise, actually it is for me. I mean I knew that America tortures its … more »
Case Report - SCC says no power to order costs of production order
Dan Michaluk wrote 3 months ago: Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously held that the Criminal Code’s production or … more »
TIME: Do Americans care about Big Brother?
ElfNinosMom wrote 4 months ago: TIME Magazine has published an article regarding the erosion of civil liberties, and the reaction of … more »
Feds Seizing Laptops at U.S. Customs?
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benjohnson71 wrote 4 months ago: The Reason Foundation has an article by Steven Titch which highlights the increasing likelihood that … more »
