Blogs about: Search And Seizure

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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 »

Tags: employer searches, Privacy, Workplace, Workstation, computer Search, Employee misconduct, employer investigation, investigative search, work-related search

Search of Marital Home1 comment

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 »

Tags: Drug Bust, police search, husband consent, wife consent, consented search, Warrantless Search, Fourth Amendment, law enforcemen, buy bust operation

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 »

Tags: Investigations

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 »

Tags: DWI, Minnesota DWI, plate impoundment, Traffic stop, Whiskey Plates

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 »

Tags: Kindle Edition, eBooks, Rutgers University Press, unreasonable searches and seizures, searches and seizures, landmark supreme court cases, wiretap powers, sea to shining sea, watergate committee

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 »

Tags: Your Money, Your Liberty, united states, DHS, Protection of Property

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 »

Tags: criminal attorney, Minnesota attorney, minor consumption, miranda, right to remain silent

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 »

Tags: Campus and school security, police powers, kang-brown, sniffer dog searches

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 »

Tags: confidentiality, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, Customs and Border Patrol, Fourth Amendment, personal laptop, United States v. Arnold

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 »

Tags: What Liberal Media?, US Supreme Court, associated press, Virgina v. Moore, 4th Amendment

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 »

Tags: PIAVA, Investigations, private investigators, Private Investigations, law enforcement, Virginia, private detective, attorneys, Lawyers

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 »

Tags: Controlled Substances, chain of custody, criminal defense attorney, minnesota lawyer, controlled-substance

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 »

Tags: Politics, america, iraq, Iraq War, bush, Torture, Anti-War, Terrorism, Congress

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 »

Tags: Regulatory powers, lawful access

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 »

Tags: libertarian, Politics, Civil Liberties, media, corruption, Constitutional Rights, Police State, Big Brother, Congress

Feds Seizing Laptops at U.S. Customs?1 comment

benjohnson71 wrote 4 months ago: The Reason Foundation has an article by Steven Titch which highlights the increasing likelihood that … more »

Tags: confidentiality, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, confidential information, FBI, Laptops, proprietary information, U.S. Customs and Border Protection


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