Mike Carter reports: The Washington Supreme Court has limited the ability of police to search someone’s car after they’ve been taken into custody, further extending a long tradition of affording state residents more privacy protections than are guaranteed under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Read more in Seattle Times. How refreshing.
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Supreme Court, in 5-4 decision, OK strip searches for minor offenses
Marcia Coyle writes: Deferring to the security concerns of jail officials, a divided U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that strip searches of individuals arrested for minor offenses do not violate their privacy rights under the Constitution. “In addressing this type of constitutional claim, courts must defer to the judgment of correctional officials unless the…
Judge: Bradley Manning supporter can sue government over border search
Kim Zetter reports: An outspoken supporter of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning has won the right to sue the federal government over a border search-and-seizure that agents conducted in 2010 after his return to the US from a Mexico vacation. David Maurice House, an MIT researcher, was granted the right to pursue a case against the…
Must love dogs? Supreme Court to rule on drug sniffing dogs
The Supreme Court granted certiorari today in Florida v. Harris – the second drug-sniffing dog case to be heard by the Court. Jane report: The US Supreme Court granted certiorari [order list, PDF] Monday in Florida v. Harris [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to determine whether an alert by a well-trained narcotics detection dog certified to detect illegal contraband is sufficient to establish…