{"id":60704,"date":"2025-04-05T08:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60704"},"modified":"2025-04-05T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:23:10","slug":"tx3-produce-inspection-rule-isnt-4a-violation-on-its-face-farmers-still-get-a-4a-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60704","title":{"rendered":"TX3: Produce inspection rule isn&#8217;t 4A violation on its face; farmers still get a 4A challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Texas rule permitting limited inspections of produce growing farms is not enjoined as a Fourth Amendment violation. In the circumstances presented, the farmers have the ability to make a Fourth Amendment challenge should the inspectors violate it. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=5d924c9a-6f04-4831-af81-af66483a00de&amp;MediaID=96b83144-426e-492b-bd26-fbce94a09bcc&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance v. Tex. Dep&#8217;t of Agric.<\/a>, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 2224 (Tex. App. \u2013 Austin Apr. 3, 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s stop was for a traffic offense, but the officers also had reasonable suspicion that the passenger was a drug trafficker, and that justified extending the stop. United States v. Trent, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64558 (E.D. Tenn. Mar. 4, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officer had reasonable suspicion that a car was involved in a shooting three days earlier, but not to the defendant getting in it. Grabbing his arm as he was trying to drive off was a seizure. However, inevitable discovery applies. United States v. Murphy-Robinson, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 64508 (E.D. Pa. Apr. 4, 2025).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas rule permitting limited inspections of produce growing farms is not enjoined as a Fourth Amendment violation. In the circumstances presented, the farmers have the ability to make a Fourth Amendment challenge should the inspectors violate it. Farm and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=60704\">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":[9,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative-search","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60704","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=60704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60705,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60704\/revisions\/60705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}