{"id":20881,"date":"2016-02-24T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20881"},"modified":"2016-02-24T07:55:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T12:55:11","slug":"today-is-the-255th-anniversary-of-the-writs-of-assistance-case-and-the-13th-anniversary-of-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20881","title":{"rendered":"Today is the 255th anniversary of the \u201cWrits of Assistance Case\u201d and the 13th anniversary of this blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

See one of the prior posts on Paxton’s case<\/a>, the original Writs of Assistance case, argued today in 1761. John Adams credited James Otis’s argument, which he witnessed and attempted to transcribe, as helping foment the Revolution and led directly to the Fourth Amendment. Otis lost the case; well, he expected to; but he didn’t give up, and what a point he made.<\/p>\n

At an NACDL meeting in Boston in 2008, I visited that room<\/a>, and just sat and closed my eyes and tried to feel and imagine what was happening that day so long ago.<\/p>\n

For this blog there have been at least 18,000 posts (the actual number is unknown because of lost data from the early years), reviewing at least 35,000 cases, and 1.54M actual visitors since 2010.<\/p>\n

And, last November, fourthamendment.com achieved a place in the ABA’s Blawg 100<\/a>. Truly an honor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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