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Judge says Trump administration's use of US Military in LA violated federal law(cnn.com)
11 points by pcaharrier 1y ago|3 comments
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Accusing Someone of "Support[Ing] Neo-Nazi Causes" May Be Libelous(reason.com)
6 points by pcaharrier 1y ago|0 comments
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
In other jurisdictions that might have worked, but not in this one where this magistrate was the only one on duty at the time.
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
>Michigan is a border state, so anyone is subject to stop and search at any time You know, if you're a Homeland Security agent you have to tell us, right?
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
This a good point too. Information can become "stale" to the point that it's no longer enough to support a search warrant or a conviction. One example of such a holding here (though the defendant lost the motion to suppress o
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
I mean, there are a few noted here if you want a starting place for your research: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-4/p...
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
>Is that cutting corners? It sounds more like trying to break the law so they could find _anything_ to throw at the guy. In my experience, yes, in many cases it was more laziness than something nefarious. Police often have a theory of th
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
>You believe way too much in the system. Who me? I assure you I don't. In the particular case I described above there were some factors about who the person was that make me pretty confident the police were wanting to sniff around f
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
A warrant for the full contents of the phone violates the particularity requirement.
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
If they have a warrant that adheres to the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment, then anything they might find that it outside the scope of the warrant would be illegally seized. For instance, if the search warrant were to say
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
They hinted at the issue in footnote 11: "Our state Constitution, Const 1963, art 1, § 11, also guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. In fact, as amended by voter initiative in the 2020 general election, Const 1963, art 1,
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
>As others have mentioned the courts in Michigan don't have any real authority to stop this. Who has said this? People are saying that a ruling of the Michigan Supreme Court won't stop Michigan police officers from getting sear
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
> If I have access to your entire phone, I can use anything I find against you as probable cause whether it’s related to the crime or not. Well, that gets into the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine, but we're not doin
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
>If the suspect had a file named "Not evidence of me stealing my neighbor's safe" and "Definitely not a video of me practicing how to break open a safe" would it be fair to assume the warrant doesn't allow a
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
Pretty absurd and sadly common (in my several years' experience working in the criminal justice system). Good for Michigan for putting a stop to it.
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
Several years ago I had the opportunity to observe when a detective came to a magistrate's office to petition for a search warrant. The warrant sought to search the contents of a person's phone, essentially without any limitations
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
I'm in good company in making this observation, it seems: https://reason.com/volokh/2025/08/26/trumps-flag-burning-exe... . "The executive order does not create any new bases for deporting a for
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
> Is it? Yes: https://reason.com/volokh/2025/02/03/may-aliens-be-deported-... He's talking about the current state of the law on that point (i.e., deportation specifically).
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
That case most certainly did not hold that "we cannot legally burn a foreign country's flag in the US." https://reason.com/volokh/2025/08/05/finding-that-defendant-...
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
"Theft in the second degree. — Any person convicted of theft in the second degree shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned for not more than 180 days, or both, if the property obtained or used has
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
>Finally, the Order contemplates deporting and otherwise denying immigration benefits to aliens who desecrate the flag, "under circumstances that permit the exercise of such remedies pursuant to Federal law." Whether deportatio
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New "Prosecuting Burning of the American Flag" EO Would Violate First Amendment(reason.com)
30 points by pcaharrier 1y ago|35 comments
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By Birth Alone: The Original Meaning of Birthright Citizenship(papers.ssrn.com)
8 points by pcaharrier 1y ago|4 comments
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
Note that this is not really a decision on the merits of the underlying claims in the lawsuit. Perplexity moved to dismiss "pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(2) and 12(b)(3)" alleging lack of personal jurisdiction
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Perplexity AI's Motion to Dismiss Dow Jones Lawsuit Is Denied in Full [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
6 points by pcaharrier 1y ago|1 comments
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Jefferson Lab wants 65 workers to voluntarily resign(whro.org)
1 points by pcaharrier 1y ago|0 comments
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
Suffice to say that before this morning I had only a vague idea about how legally complicated this could get. For instance, there's an opinion from the Department of Justice (albeit an old one) that concluded that the President can use
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Ethics: An Alternative Account of the Ford Pinto Case [pdf](pdhonline.com)
1 points by pcaharrier 1y ago|0 comments
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
I see what you're saying: all else will not remain equal. Your argument is that any increase in supply will always be more than offset by a corresponding increase in demand.
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by pcaharrier 1y ago
>In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, landlords converted thousands of houses, hotels, apartment buildings, and commercial buildings into SROs, and by 1950, SRO units made up about 10% of all rental units in some major cities. But

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