Comments on: L.A. v. Patel: law must allow hotels to contest police access to registries https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/l-a-v-patel-law-must-allow-hotels-to-contest-police-access-to-registries/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:23:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Marty https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/l-a-v-patel-law-must-allow-hotels-to-contest-police-access-to-registries/comment-page-1/#comment-325178 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:36:00 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=53857#comment-325178 One would hope there is some sort of exception for visiting foreigners. (Likely a primary reason for the historical scrutiny?)

]]> By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/l-a-v-patel-law-must-allow-hotels-to-contest-police-access-to-registries/comment-page-1/#comment-325149 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:30:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=53857#comment-325149 Mark, that’s a surprising thing to say about Justice Scalia given his role in numerous cases as a premier defender of the Fourth Amendment, often joining with more liberal justices to strike down overreaching searches and seizures:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/antonin-scalia-fighter-privacy-rights-fourth-amendment

His ruling in the hotel case was a break from that familiar pattern, and, by its own terms, was grounded in precedents in which innkeepers had historically been subject to an unusual degree of state scrutiny.

]]> By: Mark https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/06/l-a-v-patel-law-must-allow-hotels-to-contest-police-access-to-registries/comment-page-1/#comment-325134 Wed, 24 Jun 2015 02:58:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=53857#comment-325134 Justice Scalia believes that the fourth amendment is not part of the Constitution that originalist defend.

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