Daily Archives: January 20, 2017

CA11: Arguable probable cause entitles the officer to qualified immunity, here for a mental health seizure

Arguable probable cause entitles the officer to qualified immunity, here for a mental health seizure. May v. City of Nahunta, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 20501 (11th Cir. Nov. 15, 2016), same result on rehearing, May v. City of Nahunta, 2017 … Continue reading

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W.D.Va.: Leaving cell phone outside fed courthouse under ashtray, where CSOs commonly recommended hiding phones, was a waiver of REP in phone, albeit not abandonment

Defendant came to the federal courthouse because his mother was being arrested, and DHS officers invited him there. He did not know that he had an arrest warrant, too. When he got to the courthouse, he was told he couldn’t … Continue reading

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E.D.Mich.: Sex trafficking a minor in a hotel room was exigency for warrantless entry on PC

Defendant rented his hotel room under a known alias of his for which he had an ID card. That gave him standing. The exigency of sex trafficking a minor justified the officer’s warrantless entry, and it’s apparent there was probable … Continue reading

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WA: There must be a nexus between the scope of a parole search and what is being looked for

“¶17 We agree with [State v. Jardinez, 184 Wn. App. 518, 338 P.3d 292 (2014)] that the [Sentencing Guidelines] Commission’s comment is strong evidence that the legislature intended that there must be a nexus between the suspected violation and the … Continue reading

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IT World: Microsoft’s standing to sue over secret US data requests in question

IT World: Microsoft’s standing to sue over secret US data requests in question by John Ribeiro: The company has objected in a lawsuit to unreasonable US government requests for customer data

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