The warrant affidavit made generalized accusations against U.S. Private Vaults' customers but provided no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by individuals whose assets have been seized.
Reason has joined a new legal effort seeking to force the government to unseal warrants justifying the FBI's seizure of more than 600 safe deposit boxes.
The officers might receive qualified immunity, however.
"In what legal universe is it not even plausibly unreasonable to knowingly immolate someone?" asks dissenting judge
The FBI provided "no factual basis for the seizure," Judge R. Gary Klausner wrote.
The little-known but outrageous practice allows federal judges enhance defendants' sentence based on conduct a jury acquitted them of.
Remember, the lawyer’s true superpower is to turn every question into a question about procedure.
The Supreme Court has a chance to fix this. The stakes are high.
The victim will now have no right to argue his case before a jury in civil court.
Government officials who wield land grabs to pick economic winners and losers now want to use them to kill disfavored businesses.
The boy was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
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The Supreme Court delivers another blow to a victim of egregious police abuse.
"I've lost everything," says Vicki Baker.
The state used civil asset forfeiture to seize Tyson Timbs' car in 2013. His nightmare hasn't ended.
The warden at the center of the case was originally given qualified immunity.
A federal court said it did not violate her Fourth Amendment rights.
Authorities "shall destroy the videos unlawfully obtained through the surveillance of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa," a federal judge says.
The federal judiciary should not be charging for access to public court records.
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A lawsuit filed just days before the election asks federal courts to toss out all the votes already cast at drive-through polling stations in Harris County.
Judge Susan Brnovich said no reasonable person would question her impartiality just because her husband already says they're guilty.
The lawsuits have been filed over the past two weeks by several major American companies, including retailers Target and Home Depot, car manufacturers Tesla and Ford, and several major manufacturing firms.
A look at the numbers shows that both the President and his critics get it wrong.
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Did the Supreme Court quietly modify a major jurisdictional doctrine?
Even the most police-skeptical courts grant the doctrine in egregious circumstances.
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An important point on judicial retroactivity buried in a footnote of Justice Kavanaugh's opinion in Barr v. AAPC.
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Adjudication Outside Article III (part four)
Adjudication Outside Article III (part two)
Why there are no "exceptions" to Article III
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Jurors remain free to exercise judgment and mercy in a criminal justice system that often lacks both.
Are there any limits to what police can do in pursuit of a suspect? The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals apparently doesn't think so.
In fact, the legal doctrine lets cops to get away with outrageous conduct.
The 7th Circuit said the guard is protected by qualified immunity.
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The search raised Fourth Amendment concerns.
