W.D.Va.: VA statute that permitted natural gas companies to survey open fields doesn’t violate Fourth Amendment

Virginia statute that permitted natural gas transmission companies to enter open fields for survey purposes did not facially violate the Fourth Amendment or Virginia Constitution. Charlottesville Div. v. Dominion Transmission, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 132554 (W.D.Va. September 30, 2015).

2255 petitioner challenged defense counsel’s failure to object to an alleged consent search, but it is rejected [somehow] as being conclusory [which I don’t get]. United States v. Davis, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 133972 (S.D.Tex. August 21, 2015).*

2255 petitioner claimed newly discovered evidence of an illegal entry onto his curtilage to look in his truck. It didn’t matter because the truck was independently stopped on the street, and the same view occurred there. He also pled under a plea agreement that waived the search issues. Honish v. United States, 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 134682 (E.D.Tex. September 9, 2015).*

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