The Fifth Circuit Shuts Down Geofence
Warrants—And Maybe A Lot More
Posted By: sunset, 8/13/2024 2:17:43 PM
Once in a while there is a court ruling on the Fourth Amendment that just makes my jaw drop. The Fifth Circuit had such a ruling today, United States v. Jamarr Smith. The case creates a split with the Fourth Circuit on one important issue, and it creates another split with the Colorado Supreme Court on an even more important issue. The new case is about the Fourth Amendment limits of geofence warrants, which are warrants to access location information for users who have Internet providers retain location history. The Fifth Circuit makes two important holdings. First, accessing any amount of geofence records is a search
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Once in a while there is a court ruling on the Fourth Amendment that just makes my jaw drop. The Fifth Circuit had such a ruling today, United States v. Jamarr Smith. The case creates a split with the Fourth Circuit on one important issue, and it creates another split with the Colorado Supreme Court on an even more important issue. The new case is about the Fourth Amendment limits of geofence warrants, which are warrants to access location information for users who have Internet providers retain location history. The Fifth Circuit makes two important holdings. First, accessing any amount of geofence records is a search
3 arrested in armed robbery of Secret
Service agent in Tustin on night of Biden's
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Tustin police on Thursday announced the arrests of three men accused of robbing a U.S. Secret Service agent at gunpoint last month.
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Some Thoughts On Valor -- Stolen Or Not
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The best definition of ‘valor’ I have come across is ‘strength of mind in regard to danger, that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness and courage.’ Reading of vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz and his stolen valor made me think of my father’s service during WWII and, to a lesser extent, my own some thirty years later.
My dad, like a great number of young men, was drafted into the military in early 1942. Was spending the next three and a half years in the jungles of the Pacific fighting the Japanese the way he would have preferred to spend that time?
Trust me, bashing Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the Democrats is what we do here, but there’s another group of losers that need to be burned at the stake. They’re this year’s biggest losers. It might be debatable for some, but the Democratic Party isn’t at the top of my list. Maybe it’s a tie for first, but can we discuss these traitors who claim to be Reagan Republicans or conservative Republicans and then try and justify their support for Kamala Harris?
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An astonishing ruling, and one that creates splits on two differerent issues.