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Louisiana Lawmen Play Fast And Loose with the Constitution

Friday, August 29, 2008 5:23

Louisiana Lawmen Play Fast and Loose with the Constitution

In its 2000 decision in Indianapolis v. Edmond, the US Supreme Court held that efforts to attack the drug trade by holding a checkpoint to look for drugs was a violation of the Fourth Amendment’s protection of the right to be free from unwarranted searches and seizures. In the years since then, a handful of [...]

Category: Civil Rights, Drug War, In The News, Law Enforcement

California Supreme Court to Take Up Medical Marijuana Limits Issue

Friday, August 29, 2008 3:46

The California Supreme Court agreed to revisit the question of how many plants and how much marijuana medical marijuana patients may legally possess. It did so by taking up a prosecutor’s appeal of a May California Appellate Court decision that found a 2003 law designed to make the state’s medical marijuana law operational conflicted with [...]

Category: Courts, In The News, Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Latest Illinois Report Prompts Civil Rights Groups to Call for End to Consent Searches

Friday, August 8, 2008 7:37

The Illinois Department of Transportation earlier this month issued its annual report on race and traffic stops. The results showed that police were much more likely to ask minority drivers to consent to searches without probable cause, but that they were much less likely to actually find drugs, guns, or other contraband in consent searches [...]

Category: Civil Rights, Miscellaneous

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