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...trouble started back in Prohibition. Two bootleggers were stopped in their car by federal agents, who ripped out the rumble-seat upholstery and found 68 bottles of gin and whisky. The officers had obtained no warrant allowing the search, but in a 1925 decision, the Supreme Court declared that because cars were mobile, warrantless searches were legal if police had probable cause to believe that contraband was in the vehicle. Ever since, court majorities have been swerving from side to side, trying to define the extent of that exception to the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure rules...
...author of the prevailing opinion, Potter Stewart, has since retired. Now a new majority, including his replacement, Sandra Day O'Connor, has decided that the Justices erred last July. Since a warrantless auto search (with probable cause) is as legal as a regular search with a warrant, then the same guidelines apply, reasoned Justice John Paul Stevens in last week's decision. "When a legitimate search is under way, and when its purpose and its limits have been precisely defined, nice distinctions between . . . glove compartments, upholstered seats, trunks and wrapped packages . . . must give way to the interest...
...they're going to find cheap copies of the Apple being sold on every corner in the U.S." Apple's general counsel, Albert Eisenstat, toured East Asia two months ago to assess the problem. He concluded that the Asian challenge was not yet serious enough to warrant immediate legal action, but Apple is still considering that option. Says Eisenstat: "In the end, Apple's continuing new technology is going to make these fake machines obsolete...
...Likewise, why does one of Harvard's hospitals have to wait until an employee receives national attention for his rape conviction to formally fire him? Why doesn't committing the implicit lie of not mentioning a rape conviction in a letter of recommendation sent to a children's hospital warrant an immediate expulsion from the state doctors' society...
Appended to the document is another Trudeau project, a charter of rights, which guarantees Canada's citizens freedom of speech, religion and assembly. It also prohibits discrimination according to race or sex, and grants English-and French-speaking parents the right to educate their children, where numbers warrant, in their own language...