To: Lurking Libertarian
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. **************************
I hope that it does. This is a very dangerous ruling.
244 posted on
08/16/2014 3:20:30 PM PDT by
trisham
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To: trisham; Lurking Libertarian
>> 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.
>
> 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)
251 posted on
08/16/2014 4:08:15 PM PDT by
OneWingedShark
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