scotusblog.com - 12/10/2008
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Along the way toward reaching a major new issue on police authority, and hinting that some Justices were ready to uphold at least some expansion, the Supreme Court on Tuesday got diverted into a question it has never decided. And that may complicate its move toward a decision in ...
scotusblog.com - 12/14/2008
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Analysis With Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.,
discussing what might be a For-9/11-Only rule to limit...
lawsuits against high government officials during crisis times, the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed to be edging toward embracing a new form ...
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Analysis: Special legal immunity for handling crises?
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Justices Consider Questions On Police Searches, Discrimination Claims and Legal Immunity for Administration
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society —
... In Arizona v. Johnson, the high court considered the extent of police pat-down searches of passengers of cars stopped on traffic violations. The Scotusblog’s Lyle Denniston in analyzing the oral argument wrote that the justices focused largely on definition of roadside stops. “When does such a stop begin and end, in relation to police discretion on what they do after the initial stop? In Fourth Amendment terms, that question is: when does a police seizure of an individual begin and end, especially during a traffic stop?” ...
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