{"id":41680,"date":"2020-01-09T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41680"},"modified":"2020-01-09T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T13:05:59","slug":"e-d-pa-leaked-existence-of-federal-sw-that-had-press-there-before-the-sw-results-in-statutory-damages-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41680","title":{"rendered":"E.D.Pa.: Leaked existence of federal SW that had press there before the SW results in statutory damages award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff sued the government because the IRS and FBI leaked to the media a search warrant for his premises and the media was there. He got $1000 in statutory damages. He filed an untimely motion to reopen based on alleged perjury at trial where he prevailed on liability. Reopening denied. Fattah v. United States, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1812 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 2, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>A defendant not charged with controlled buys through a CI has no right to the name of the CI for a motion to suppress because it\u2019s merely speculative that anything would come of it. United States v. Philon, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 2183 (N.D. Ohio Jan. 7, 2020).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff sued the government because the IRS and FBI leaked to the media a search warrant for his premises and the media was there. He got $1000 in statutory damages. He filed an untimely motion to reopen based on alleged &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=41680\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informant-hearsay","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41686,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41680\/revisions\/41686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}