{"id":53697,"date":"2022-12-02T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T14:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53697"},"modified":"2022-12-08T22:42:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:42:49","slug":"ca11-no-jurisdiction-to-enjoin-investigation-after-execution-of-sw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53697","title":{"rendered":"CA11: No jurisdiction to enjoin investigation after execution of SW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A District Court has no anomalous jurisdiction to bar the government from using evidence seized with a search warrant in an investigation. There are other remedies at the appropriate time. <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ca11.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/pub\/files\/202213005.pdf\">Trump v. United States<\/a>. 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 33296 (11th Cir. Dec. 1, 2022):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIt is a familiar rule that courts of equity do not ordinarily restrain criminal prosecutions.\u201d  Douglas v. City of Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, 163 (1943). To avoid unnecessary interference with the executive branch\u2019s criminal enforcement authority\u2014while also offering relief in rare instances where a gross constitutional violation would otherwise leave the subject of a search without recourse\u2014this Circuit has developed an exacting test for exercising equitable jurisdiction over suits flowing from the seizure of property. Richey v. Smith instructs courts to consider four factors: (1) whether the government displayed a \u201ccallous disregard\u201d for the plaintiff\u2019s constitutional rights; (2) \u201cwhether the plaintiff has an individual interest in and need for the material whose return he seeks\u201d; (3) \u201cwhether the plaintiff would be irreparably injured by denial of the return of the property\u201d; and (4) \u201cwhether the plaintiff has an adequate remedy at law for the redress of his grievance.\u201d 515 F.2d at 1243\u201344 (quotation omitted).<\/p><p>Plaintiff\u2019s jurisdictional brief in the district court dispatched with all four of these inquiries in a single paragraph. But Richey\u2019s inquiry is not as simple as that filing made it out to be.<\/p><p>When we examine Plaintiff\u2019s arguments about the Richey factors, we notice a recurring theme. He makes arguments that\u2014if consistently applied\u2014would allow any subject of a search warrant to invoke a federal court\u2019s equitable jurisdiction. That understanding of Richey would make equitable jurisdiction not extraordinary, \u201cbut instead quite ordinary.\u201d United States v. Search of Law Office, Residence, and Storage Unit Alan Brown, 341 F.3d 404, 415 (5th Cir. 2003) (quotation omitted). Our precedents consistently reject this approach. We have emphasized again and again that equitable jurisdiction exists only in response to the most callous disregard of constitutional rights, and even then only if other factors make it clear that judicial oversight is absolutely necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Plaintiff fails all four of these tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A District Court has no anomalous jurisdiction to bar the government from using evidence seized with a search warrant in an investigation. There are other remedies at the appropriate time. Trump v. 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