Last year, in Rivera v. Borough of Pottstown, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that individualized suspicion is required before gov't officials can get a warrant to search homes for code violations.
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officials → rule → violations
But now the borough is demanding that renters submit to suspicionless searches by private inspectors.
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renters → demand → inspectors
So, folks, we're doing Rivera v. Pottstown II.
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we → do → II
We place our bets—sorry, predictions—on whether Kalshi is on the up-and-up when it comes to Indian gaming and on prediction market regulation more generally.
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it → place → regulation
- German company wins bid to supply trains (that can travel >186 mph) for new railroad from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. to Las Vegas.
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that → win → Vegas
(The company's trains currently travel 220 mph.)
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trains → travel → mph
The first two trains will be built in Germany with American workers on hand for training—and then eight more Made in America.
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trains → build → America
Losing bidder (whose trains "presently have a maximum speed of 160 miles per hour"): That's not Buy America enough.
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That → lose → hour
- Rhode Island man jumps out of second-story window to evade arrest, breaking his feet and ankles; he claims he has to hobble around prison without doctor-recommended accommodations.
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he → jump → accommodations
The state tort claims act may waive sovereign immunity for "all actions of tort," but the state supreme court has never definitively said whether that applies to discrimination claims.
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that → waive → claims
We checked in with the Rhode Island Supreme Court on this, and they seemed pretty definitive.
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they → check → this
- Legal research platform ROSS Intelligence trained its AI system on Westlaw headnotes.
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Intelligence → train → headnotes
- It would obviously violate the First Amendment for city officials to pass a law making it illegal for a sound-truck operator to support the mayor's political opponent, but what if instead they just conspire to seize the guy's truck by invoking esoteric parking and noise ordinances?
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they → violate → ordinances
(Though there's qualified immunity for officials who were just following the conspirators' orders.)
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who → be → orders
- In 1995, saying she "just felt mean that day," Knoxville, Tenn. woman (with friends) tortures and kills another woman, taking a piece of the victim's skull that she said she was "eating breakfast with."
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she → say → breakfast
She's sentenced to death.
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She → sentence → death
She seeks habeas relief, loses.
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She → seek → relief
Her execution is set, and a few months before, she challenges the state's execution protocol.
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she → set → protocol
At a hearing, the state's attorney says that the state "does not dispute" that the woman suffered from a history of rape and sexual abuse.
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woman → say → rape
That concession "erodes the foundation" of my state court proceedings and requires reopening my habeas petition.
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concession → erode → petition
This is effectively a second habeas petition, which courts can't consider.
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courts → consider → which
Sixth Circuit, over a dissent: We'll stay the execution so we can properly consider the arguments.
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we → stay → arguments
(The state then botches the execution, and the woman is now in critical condition.)
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woman → botch → condition
- Your summarist didn't take the classes in law school that tell you what a "swap" is.
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swap → take → you
But whatever the meaning, the Sixth Circuit doesn't buy Kalshi's argument that "predicting" the "event" of the Dodgers taking the next series in 5 is not in the same league as "betting" on the future price of pork bellies.
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Dodgers → buy → bellies
Which means the Ohio and Tennessee gambling authorities win this round and Kalshi's attempts to preliminary enjoin them fail.
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attempts → mean → them
- When officers have an arrest warrant, do they need probable cause to think the subject is home before they bust in to apprehend them—or a mere reasonable belief?
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they → have → them
Sixth Circuit (unpublished): We've said both, and we're not clearing anything up today.
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we → say → anything
- Ninth Circuit: It is not a Fourth Amendment violation for police to hold a felony suspect at gunpoint until he's cuffed, even if he's compliant.
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he → hold → gunpoint
They had no reason to think this guy was violent, and a jury might think pointing guns at his head from three feet away was unreasonable.
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pointing → have → head
But there's no clearly established law on that, so we do indeed have to reverse the denial of QI.
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we → be → QI
- After the creation of the Great Basin National Park in the 1980s, the feds began diverting water inside the park, a serious problem for ranchers downstream, whose water rights were set out in a 1934 state-court proceeding.
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rights → begin → proceeding
Congress waived sovereign immunity in these cases in 1952, and it would be "absurd" were it otherwise.
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it → waive → 1952
This is going to be a disaster.
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This → go → ?
- Mexican citizen in the U.S. since 2000 loses bid to have his removal canceled, but he's allowed to leave voluntarily, and he pays the $500 required for that the next day.
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he → lose → that
He also promptly appeals on cancellation of removal.
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He → appeal → removal
On appeal, the BIA affirms on cancellation and also says he never paid the $500, even though the receipt is in the record.
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receipt → affirm → record
Yeah, he paid the receipt.
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he → pay → receipt
The gov't argued if the BIA gets a fact wrong, the appellant is out of luck.
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appellant → argue → luck
It's what SCOTUS has said.
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SCOTUS → say → what
…and 19 more, not listed.
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