Continuing our series on what is permissible regarding school searches, we turn to how far officials can go when investigating students suspected of criminal activity. The school environment does permit searches under certain circumstances,... Continue reading →
It has been almost 50 years since Dirty Harry hit the big screen in 1971. In this scene, loose canon crimefighter Harry Callaghan meets with the San Francisco District Attorney and an appeals court judge. They inform a discombobulated Harry that the... Continue reading →
For the most part, judges are notorious slow in embracing new technology. A few years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts noted that the Justices used vacuum tubes to send messages to one another well into the 1970s. Typically, such episodes are simply... Continue reading →
