Supreme Court rules police need warrant for GPS tracking
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 at
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police cannot place a GPS device on a suspect’s car to track his movements without a warrant, a test case that upholds basic privacy civil rights in the face of new surveillance technology. The high court ruling was a defeat for the Obama administration, which had argued that a warrant was not required to use global positioning logic devices to monitor a vehicle on public streets. The justices unanimously upheld a precedent-setting ruling by a U.S. …
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(Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday barred high profile Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio from detaining people simply for being in the country illegally, in a ruling that faulted the local lawman for enforcing federal immigration law. The 40-page written attitude by U.S. Constituency Judge G. Murray Snow came on the same day he issued legal sanctions against Arpaio over ruined documents. The decisions come as a further blow for the controversial sheriff, who already has faced rebukes from the U.S. Justice Department and the Department of Land of your birth Wellbeing. …