{"id":184779,"date":"2012-01-23T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/23\/roberts-court-gets-one-right\/"},"modified":"2012-01-23T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T01:04:00","slug":"roberts-court-gets-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/23\/roberts-court-gets-one-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts Court Gets One Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have ruled by 9-0 that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/24\/us\/police-use-of-gps-is-ruled-unconstitutional.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warrant is required to plant a GPS tracker on someone&#8217;s car<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The the majority opinion was that&nbsp; the physical installation of a tracker was a trespass, and hence required a warrant, while 4 justices, Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan argued more broadly that it &#8220;impinged on the expectation of privacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not a distinction without a difference.&nbsp; The former position leaves issues like, for example, tracking a cell phone, unclear, and you can be sure that lazy members of the law enforcement community will exploit this ambiguity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have ruled by 9-0 that a warrant is required to plant a GPS tracker on someone&#8217;s car. The the majority opinion was that&nbsp; the physical installation of a tracker was a trespass, and hence required a warrant, while 4 justices, Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan argued more broadly that it &#8220;impinged on the expectation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}