Chao Xiong reports on a somewhat unusual Fourth Amendment case : White Castle, weed and baggy pants. It has all the elements of a comedy, but throw in a concealed handgun, a suspected drug deal and a wardrobe malfunction, and it’s a Minnesota Court of Appeals case that even compelled a judge to quote an…
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Article: Pseudonymous Litigation
Lior Strahilevitz of the University of Chicago Law School has an article in the University of Chicago Law Review (Vol. 77, pp. 1239, 2010), “Pseudonymous Litigation.” Here’s the abstract: We presently lack a good theory for when we should permit parties to litigate using a pseudonym, and American and European legal systems differ sharply on…
D.C. Circuit Holds that Month-Long Police GPS Monitoring Triggers Fourth Amendment
Law Professor Sherry F. CKolb writes: Last month, in United States v. Maynard, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the Fourth Amendment “reasonable search” requirement applies to police when they track the movements of a person’s car via an attached GPS device. In so holding, the D.C. Circuit joined a growing…
Border guard charged with forcing women into ‘humiliating’ strip searches
Kelly Sinoski reports: A border guard allegedly used the threat of detention or a criminal record to force four young women to “illegal, humiliating strip searches,” in which he touched some of their breasts and private parts, a B.C. Supreme Court jury in New Westminster heard Monday. Crown counsel Christina Godlewska said Daniel Greenhalgh was…