{"id":31036,"date":"2018-01-02T00:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T05:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31036"},"modified":"2017-12-30T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T12:10:15","slug":"mi-electric-companys-use-of-smart-meters-is-not-state-action-for-4a-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31036","title":{"rendered":"MI: Electric company&#8217;s use of smart meters is not state action for 4A purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electric company\u2019s decision to install smart meters is not a Fourth Amendment issue because the company is a private actor. <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdocs.courts.mi.gov\/OPINIONS\/FINAL\/COA\/20171010_C330675_54_330675.OPN.PDF\">In re Consumers Energy Co.<\/a>, 2017 Mich. App. LEXIS 2161 (Oct. 10, 2017, published Dec. 28, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>The state trial court may have misidentified the search and seizure issue, but the court of appeals did not, and defendant thus had a full and fair opportunity to litigate the Fourth Amendment claim in state court. Haakenstad v. Symdon, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 212933 (W.D. Wis. Dec. 29, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electric company\u2019s decision to install smart meters is not a Fourth Amendment issue because the company is a private actor. In re Consumers Energy Co., 2017 Mich. App. LEXIS 2161 (Oct. 10, 2017, published Dec. 28, 2017). The state &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=31036\">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":[43,76,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-search","category-surveillance-technology","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31036","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=31036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31037,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31036\/revisions\/31037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}