From FourthAmendment.com: there is no Fourth Amendment or state right in Ohio to be presented with a search warrant at the time the search starts: There is no federal or constitutional right to be presented with a search warrant at the time the search begins. Here, the officers who obtained the warrant called ahead to…
Category: Court
No monetary damages in veterans’ breach lawsuit against VA
The Associated Press reports that a federal appeals court rejected two veterans’ claims for monetary damages in their lawsuit over a 2007 computer security breach at the Birmingham, Ala., VA hospital. As in other breach lawsuits reported in the past, the court held that Jim Henry Perkins and Jessie Frank Qualls had to prove actual…
Verdict in landmark U.K. mental health employment case
From the U.K., where they have something comparable to our A.D.A. when it comes to employment discrimination based on disability: Cheltenham Borough Council has today lost its case to sue former employee Christine Laird for £1million for not disclosing her past experience of depression. Leading mental health charity Mind says the landmark ruling serves as…
TN Court: grandson living in house had no expectation of privacy
FourthAmendment.com informs us of a court opinion in United States v. Cowart, Eastern District Tennessee that held that a grandson living in a grandparent’s house had no legally cognizable expectation of privacy. From the court opinion: Cowart had no property interest in the area in which he lived, whether a tenancy or freehold estate. While…