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NEW BUFFALO, Mich. — REAL News Michiana has obtained exclusive bodycam video of a false arrest of Granger man by the United States Coast Guard last month. The Coast Guard made the arrest based off of a flyer sent to them from an anonymous source, then claimed the man was wanted for assaulting a federal officer at the January 6th, 2021, rally in Washington D.C. It turned out, there was no warrant. The Coast Guard arrested Walker on June 11th of this year at the Moorings Marina in New Buffalo. However, there was no warrant and no evidence the 68-year-old...

The 4th Amendment right against warrantless searches of a person’s home is a pillar of Americans’ constitutional liberties. Before a police officer, or any other government official, can enter your home, they must show a judge that they have probable cause that they will discover specific evidence of a crime. There are some limited exceptions to this right. There is an “exigent circumstances” exception. If a police officer looks through a home’s window and sees a person about to stab another person, the officer can burst through the door to prevent the attack. There is also the “emergency aid” exception....

In a pending civil lawsuit in a Texas Federal Court, a constitutional nightmare is occurring that could have ominous consequences for all Americans. In violation of the Constitution, The activist federal judge in this case has made a U.S. business owner essentially a slave without any due process or hearing. All of the relevant details of this profoundly disturbing case are summarized at case overview tab on LawInjustice.com. No case in recent judicial history resembles more of a Stalinist show trial. The conduct appears to be more corruption than merely judicial activism and the litany of outrages occurring are almost...

Rough day for NFL fans. First, a ruling gives the league and owners much better positioning at the bargaining table by ruling that the lockout insurance is legit, and now two popular online video streaming sites have been seized by the U.S. Government. Channelsurfing.net and Atdhe.net were sites that linked to broadcasts of NFL games and plenty of other television shows. I'm not sure if this applies to Atdhe.net or not, but Channelsurfing.net did not actually host copyrighted material, it embedded from other sites that did so. Yes, both of these sites operate in a gray area of broadcasting copyright...

Stockton, Calif. (AP) -- The city council voted to ask the California Supreme Court to rehear a case in which the court ruled Stockton could no longer sell vehicles seized from drug dealers and solicitors of prostitutes. City officials said Tuesday the court's 4-3 ruling last week deprived the city of an effective crime-fighting tool. The ruling overturned the laws of more than two dozen cities from Oakland to Los Angeles, and established that only state law can determine punishment drug and prostitution offenses. A Stockton ordinance allows police to seize and sell the cars of people caught selling drugs...

Stockton, Calif. (AP) -- The state's Supreme Court heard arguments this week challenging a Stockton ordinance that allows police to seize and sell the cars of people caught selling drugs or soliciting prostitutes while behind the wheel. More than two dozen California communities have similar ordinances, but Stockton resident Kendra O'Connell has filed a lawsuit that could block the practice. O'Connell never had her car seized but filed the suit as a concerned citizen who objected to Stockton's seizure law, said her lawyer, Mark Clausen. The city should not have the right to take away somebody's car for these relatively...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Albuquerque's new DWI seizure ordinance has some people asking whether it is legal to seize someone's vehicle without due process. Civil liberties activists said Albuquerque's new DWI seizure ordinance interferes with citizens' constitutional rights. Under the ordinance, the city can permanently take a first offender's car at the time of arrest. The city said it makes more sense to impound the cars now, rather than wait for the case to go to trial, which could take six to eight months. The ACLU said that's where the constitutional problem comes up. "What this ordinance does is penalize them...

The nation's strongest laws against sprawl are beginning to buckle here in Oregon under pressure from an even stronger, voter-approved law that trumps growth restrictions with property rights. In a collision between two radically different visions of how cities should grow, claims under Oregon's new law are pitting neighbor against neighbor, rattling real estate values, unnerving bankers and spooking politicians. The property-rights law, which was approved overwhelmingly by voters last fall and is known as Measure 37, is on the brink of wrecking Oregon's best-in-the-nation record of reining in sprawl, according to state officials and national planning experts.