Arizona v. Gant was decided earlier this year. It basically says that you cannot simply arrest someone, search their vehicle, and then use whatever evidence found for unrelated charges against them ( Read more... )

The statements wrung from Mr. Jawad in Afghanistan and at Guantánamo during
more than fifty interrogations-even if accurately reported in the Government’s unsworn hearsay
summaries and interrogation reports-do not remotely meet the standard for admissibility in a
federal habeas proceeding.

Al-Halandy et al v. Obama et al. with some further ( Read more... )

Today we just saw a ruling in Safford Unified School District v. Redding. In short, on suspicion that she was hiding headache medication, the assistant principle conducted a strip search of a 13 year old girl. Not that anyone cares what my view is on this, but at least I might raise some interest in the case ( Read more... )