Police barriers; drug roadblocks struck down in latest victory for Fourth Amendment

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The Supreme Court ruling in City of Indianapolis v. Edmond striking down narcotics roadblocks is discussed. The court ruled that the police could not routinely stop all cars as a means to finding a few drug smugglers, putting a stop to a tendency to strike down the Fourth Amendment.

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Open door policy; court rulings on traffic stops undercut Fourth Amendment protections

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The three traffic stop cases which the US Supreme Court has decided over the 1997-98 and 1998-99 terms have moved the Court's Fourth Amendment doctrine far closer to the views expressed nearly two decades ago by William H Rehnquist, then associate justice on the Court's conservative fringe. Rehnquist was the lone dissenter in Delaware v. Prouse, a 1979 ruling in which the Court struck down as unreasonable a random license check of a motorist. Rehnquist did endorsed placing the burden on the motorist to show why such a stop was inconsistent with Fourth Amendment principles.

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Telemarketer pitches the court; businessman targets Scalia with his claim of a wrongful misdemeanor arrest

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The US Supreme Court ruled in the case of Ricci v. Arlington Heights that the arrest of a citizen in violation of a fine-only ordinance was an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment. The Court, and particularly Justice Antonin Scalia, has drawn the line on searches which violate common-law principles, and the result in this case will be of interest to many owners of street businesses.

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