Today, the Supreme Court hears argument in Missouri v. McNeely.  The issue presented is whether a police officer may obtain a nonconsensual and warrantless blood sample from a driver the officer believes is drunk.  The petition for certiorari can be found here.   Essentially, the cops stopped McNeely late at night and McNeely did poorly on…
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Today, the Court decided Ontario v. Quon.  At issue was the right of the City of Ontario to read text messages sent by its employee’s on City-issued pagers. In a nutshell, the City issued employees pagers, noticed that the number of messages sent exceeded the plan (although the employees personally paid for overages), and thus…
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