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Professor, Stanford Law School. Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution. Author, The Digital 4th Amendment: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Fourth-Amendment-Privacy-Policing/dp/0190627077/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0

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02.02.2026 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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a woman wearing a red hat is holding a microphone and says " and may the odds be ever in your favor " ALT: a woman wearing a red hat is holding a microphone and says " and may the odds be ever in your favor "

Happy Submission Day to all who celebrate!

02.02.2026 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Seventh Avenue (Live)
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Woody Shaw, "Seventh Avenue," from Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard (recorded August 1978), with @WoodyShaw on trumpet, Carter Jefferson on tenor, Onaje Allan Gumbs on piano, Clint Houston on bass, and Victor Lewis on drums.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3my2...

02.02.2026 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

No special rules for journalists that I am aware of. Law is uncertain on warrant forcing biometrics generally. I think it's an issue of the All Writs Act, and can be challenged on that basis, but no defense counsel has filed such a challenge.

31.01.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is a "moving property" argument, you ask? See here.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

30.01.2026 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Motion to suppress denied in the Mangione case. Defendant made a moving property argument: Moving his bag away from him meant it couldn't be searched incident to arrest (there's a circuit split on this). Court: Evidence is admitted for other reasons.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

30.01.2026 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You're behind the times. By about 80 years.

30.01.2026 09:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In 2016, California voters legalize weed by ballot initiative. It adds an open container law for weed. But does it apply to loose weed scattered on the floor of a car? Cal SCT opts for a purposivist reading of the law, resulting in an answer, "no."
www4.courts.ca.gov/opinions/doc...

30.01.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Insofar as it's intructions as to how law applies to the facts, then yes, appellate courts tend to tell trial judges what the relevant law is. (That was what Harris was about.)

30.01.2026 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Harvard Faculty Cut A Grades by Nearly 7 Percentage Points in Fall," Harvard Crimson reports.
thecrimson.com/article/2026...

30.01.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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One of those things I wonder about is whether it's really possible to challenge the reliability of a drug detection dog after Florida v. Harris; I don't recall seeing such a challenge ever succeed. Another effort that fails here, from the Idaho SCT. isc.idaho.gov/opinions/515...

29.01.2026 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks, look forward to reading!

29.01.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Related blog post, from 2019.
reason.com/volokh/2019/...

29.01.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Man consents to search of his pickup truck, officers find a purse inside and search it. Ohio Ct App: Search of purse was invalid, as man did not have apparent authority over the purse, which belonged to female passenger.
www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/rod/docs/pdf...

29.01.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

Yep. And the blue would sort of rub off the corners and on to everything. I still have some copies of that one.

29.01.2026 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Table of Contents below. It's been <checks watch> at least 5 minutes since I last thought of these issues.

29.01.2026 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No idea what "computer crime questions in a 4th Amendment context" means. I assume I meant to say, "Fourth Amendment questions in a computer context"? It's been a while.

29.01.2026 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The DOJ manual discussed in the article is here, BTW.
www.google.com/books/editio...

29.01.2026 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Some day that cyber crime stuff will become important, I guess.

29.01.2026 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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National Jurist magazine, 1999.

29.01.2026 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I see.

28.01.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for the reply. Just so I follow, are β€œthese assholes” the students or Rehnquist?

28.01.2026 19:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think she was the only woman teaching criminal law in the fall of 1982 at HLS.

28.01.2026 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Who was that professor? I would guess it was Susan Estrich.

28.01.2026 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Description of a Harvard Law School Fall 1L class in 1982. (Authored by now-Judge Patrick Schiltz, who has been in the news recently.)
scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcont...

28.01.2026 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 55    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I took him to be describing what the law requires them to be, not making a factual determination of what they are.

28.01.2026 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He didn't say that, but I know a lot of people who think he did.

28.01.2026 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think that's what Kavanaugh said.

28.01.2026 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Seeing a driver press buttons on his phone doesn't create reasonable suspicion to stop him for texting while driving in violation of state law, Supreme Court of Maryland rules.
www.mdcourts.gov/data/opinion...

28.01.2026 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3
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Here are the 1st four pages, if you want to get a taste.

25.01.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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