[trisham]

This is a very unsettled area of the law; the California Supreme Court split 4-3 on the issue, and it might well wind up at SCOTUS.

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I hope that it does. This is a very dangerous ruling.

[OneWingedShark]

>> This is a very unsettled area of the law; the California Supreme Court split 4-3 on the issue, and it might well wind up at SCOTUS.
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> I hope that it does. This is a very dangerous ruling.

Given recent rulings such possibility does /not/ fill me with hope — rather an uneasy, low-level sense of dread.
The 1997 case SALINAS v. UNITED STATES: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/522/52 (unanimous)