I don't understand how stuff like this happens: According to the suit, police arrested Jamie Lockard, 53, on suspicion of drunken driving in March. A Breathalyzer test showed he was under the legal limit, but Officer Brian Miller doubted the findings. Lockard and his attorney claim in the suit that police took him to Dearborn County Hospital and forced him to submit to a … [Read more...] about What Are the Medical Ethics of Forced Catheterization?
Of Exigent Circumstances and Radio Dead Zones
When it comes to judicial oversight of law enforcement intrusion into our privacy, I'm pretty suspicious of claims of exigent circumstances. For example, I don't believe the claim that terrorism investigators need to conduct warrantless surveillance because there's not enough time to get a warrant. Some places have judges stationed at sobriety checkpoints to speed the warrant … [Read more...] about Of Exigent Circumstances and Radio Dead Zones
Scattershot 2009-08-31
Random shots around the web: I guess this is easier than, you know, catching criminals. More evidence that our harsh treatment of released sex offenders is just ineffective security theater. I should have seen this coming: Michael Jackson sightings. The death of Spiderman? Or at least the death of an interesting Spiderman...along with every other interesting Marvels superhero. … [Read more...] about Scattershot 2009-08-31
The Cyber Revolution Reaches the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit just decided United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing which includes some very important new rules for seizing data on people's computers. Or so I'm told by folks like Scott Greenfield and Orin Kerr, who understand these things far better than me. As I understand the problem Kozinski is trying to solve, the government used to treat a search for anything on … [Read more...] about The Cyber Revolution Reaches the Ninth Circuit
It’s Been A Bad Year
My mother died in April, I moved in with my father for a few months to take care of him until I could find a nursing home, I moved him to the nursing home, I cleaned out his apartment, and I straightened out his finances. Now my father's died too, and I just got back from visiting his brother and sister and taking his ashes back to where he grew up in Kentucky. I guess I … [Read more...] about It’s Been A Bad Year