{"id":60632,"date":"2025-03-30T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60632"},"modified":"2025-03-31T08:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:09:12","slug":"d-kan-marion-county-record-retaliatory-newspaper-search-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60632","title":{"rendered":"D.Kan.: <em>Marion County Record<\/em> retaliatory newspaper search case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the <em>Marion County Record<\/em> case, the now infamous case of a search warrant for a newspaper\u2019s servers and all electronic devices based on a First Amendment retaliation claim, the main Fourth Amendment claim survives the motions to dismiss. The false search warrant affidavit and overbroad search claims survive. Plaintiffs\u2019 Privacy Protection Act (PPA) claim (42 U.S.C. \u00a7 2000aa(a)) survives a motion to dismiss for lack of probable cause for the warrant and a warrant based on falsehoods. Good faith is not a defense under the PPA. Some defendants get out for lack of specific participation. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2024cv2122-81\">Meyer v. City of Marion<\/a>, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58751 (D. Kan. Mar. 28, 2025); <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2024cv2120-59\">Bentz v. City of Marion<\/a>, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58748 (D. Kan. Mar. 28, 2025). Also there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2024cv2044-88\">Zorn v. City of Marion<\/a>, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 58742 (D. Kan. Mar. 28, 2025).  [It&#8217;s complicated, and the judge did a great job sorting out and narrowing issues.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Marion County Record case, the now infamous case of a search warrant for a newspaper\u2019s servers and all electronic devices based on a First Amendment retaliation claim, the main Fourth Amendment claim survives the motions to dismiss. The &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60632\">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":[12,7,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-searches","category-overbreadth","category-overseizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60632","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=60632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60651,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60632\/revisions\/60651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}