{"id":28432,"date":"2017-08-03T15:07:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28432"},"modified":"2017-08-03T15:07:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T20:07:01","slug":"reason-federal-judge-rules-unlicensed-dogs-arent-protected-by-fourth-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=28432","title":{"rendered":"Reason: Federal Judge Rules Unlicensed Dogs Aren&#8217;t Protected By Fourth Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/03\/federal-judge-rules-unlicensed-dogs-aren\">Federal Judge Rules Unlicensed Dogs Aren&#8217;t Protected By Fourth Amendment<\/a> by C.J. Ciaramella:<br \/>\nNikita Smith sued the Detroit police after they shot her three dogs on a pot raid. A judge ruled the dogs were &#8220;contraband.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Michigan woman has no basis to sue the Detroit Police Department (DPD) for shooting her three dogs because they were not properly licensed.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court Judge George Caram Steeh dismissed a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Detroit resident Nikita Smith last last year after a marijuana raid by Detroit police left her three dogs shot to death.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling is the first time a federal court has considered the question of whether an unlicensed pet\u2014in violation of city or state code\u2014is protected property under the Fourth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason: Federal Judge Rules Unlicensed Dogs Aren&#8217;t Protected By Fourth Amendment by C.J. Ciaramella: Nikita Smith sued the Detroit police after they shot her three dogs on a pot raid. A judge ruled the dogs were &#8220;contraband.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28433,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28432\/revisions\/28433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}