by David Rudoi | Jan 29, 2012 | Bill of Rights
David Rudoi Esq. January 29, 2012 On January 22, 2012 a unanimous United States Supreme Court ruled that government authorities cannot attach GPS devices to vehicles without properly attained search warrants. The Justices ruled that it was an illegal search and...
by David Rudoi | Jan 21, 2012 | Medical Marijuana
David Rudoi Esq. Jan. 18 2012 On January 6, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that it will hear Florida v. Jardine, an important Fourth Amendment case dealing with the use of drug dogs by authorities in procuring search warrants for homes. The Florida Supreme Court ruled...
by David Rudoi | Jan 15, 2012 | Medical Marijuana
The U.S. Supreme court decided not to hear Jackson County Sherriff Mike Winter’s legal challenge, which asserted that U.S. federal law trumps state laws allowing for medical marihuana patients to not be abridged from carrying concealed weapons. The Oregon Sherriff...
by David Rudoi | Jan 9, 2012 | Drug Testing
David Rudoi Esq. Jan 9, 2012 According to a recent study by Huestis et al, marijuana metabolite levels often peak several days after a person has stopped using. The study monitored marijuana users’s THC-COOH levels (the primary method by which courts test for...
by David Rudoi | Jan 2, 2012 | Bill of Rights, National Defense Authorization Act
David Rudoi Esq. Jan 2, 2012 While most of us were out celebrating the New Year, President Obama quietly signed The National Defense Authorization Act, (NDAA). The NDAA codifies into law the indefinite detention of “terrorists” named in the act as “Belligerents”...
