Respondents (“Patel”) are the Los Angeles Lodging Association and “approximately forty hotel owners,” including Naranjibhai Patel, who operate their businesses in Los Angeles. Brief for Respondents, Patel et al., at 4. Patel challenged Los Angeles...
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The City of Ontario contracted with Arch Wireless to provide the City with alphanumeric two-way pagers and text messaging services. See Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co., Inc., 529 F.3d 892, 895 (9th Cir. 2008). The pagers were distributed to its...
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In June and July 2013, Albemarle County police officers twice recorded a distinctive black and orange motorcycle eluding police pursuit by traveling significantly over the speed limit. Collins v. Commonwealth, 790 S.E.2d 611, 612–13 (Va. 2016). The...
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In 2018, Mississippi passed the Gestational Age Act (“HB 1510”), which prohibits abortions after 15 weeks, except for in cases of medical emergency or severe fetal abnormality. Jackson Women's Health Org. v. Dobbs at 269. HB 1510 defines “gestational...
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Electronic surveillance is the acquisition of information by an electronic, mechanical, or other surveillance device of the contents of any wire or electronic communication, under circumstances in which a party to the communication...
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Exigent circumstances, as defined in United States v. McConney are "circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe that entry (or other relevant prompt action) was necessary to prevent physical harm to the officers or...
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The expectation of privacy is a legal test, originated from Katz v. United States and is a key component of Fourth Amendment analysis. The Fourth Amendment protects people from warrantless searches of places or seizures of persons...
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In 1985, Stanmore Cawthon Cooper, an airline pilot, was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (“HIV”). See Cooper v. FAA, 596 F.3d 538, 541 (9th Cir. 2010). Per Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) regulations, Cooper was required to...
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Under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, federal agencies must disclose records to anyone who requests them, subject to certain exemptions. See AT&T v. FCC, 582 F.3d 490, 492 (3d Cir. 2009). If an agency refuses to disclose...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), beginning at least in 2006, set up a counterterrorism operation known as Operation Flex, which used detection and prevention techniques to counter alleged terrorism and sought to “gather information on...