Ep 206 — Who’s Afraid of the Fourth Amendment?

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Summary <p dir="ltr">DOCKET ALERTS:</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Florida's Attorney General James Uthmeier is <a href= "https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/02/17/uthmeier-uf-adjunct-teaching-contract-pay-attorney-general/"> getting paid</a> $50,000 a semester to teach a single class at University of Florida's law school. </p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">The Trump Administration finally obeyed the <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.648842/gov.uscourts.paed.648842.64.0.pdf"> court order</a> and put the exhibit on enslaved people back at President's House in Philadelphia.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">The Supreme Court has decided to eliminate corruption by asking litigants to <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrules/2026_Rules_Revisions.pdf"> add their stock ticker symbols</a> to filing disclosures. Oh, you thought maybe the justices would agree to stop trading individual stocks? LOL.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">And a JAG lawyer sent to help out the US Attorneys Office in Minnesota got cited for contempt after ICE responded to a habeas order by dumping a Minnesota man on the street in El Paso without his identity documents. Judge Laura Provinzino <a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72221590/soto-jimenez-v-bondi/"> ordered</a> the lawyer to pay $500 per day until the petitioner got his ID back.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">MAIN SHOW:</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">In California, Judge Sunshine Sykes issued a <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210.116.0.pdf"> major benchslap</a> to the Trump administration's claim that it can — or must! — detain immigrants who haven't been granted permanent residence. In December, she granted class certification and <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210/gov.uscourts.cacd.980210.94.0.pdf"> ordered</a> the government to give everyone not detained at the border a bond hearing. The government ignored her ruling, based on a decision by the immigration courts housed inside the Justice Department. Separation of powers, how does it go?</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">And Andrew and Liz talk about two "surveillance" issues: commercially-aggregated data tracking our every movement and "dynamic" pricing.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">The Supreme Court first started considering surveillance in <a href= "https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3066032366235422373">US v. Jones</a>, 565 U.S. 400 (2012) and endorsed the "mosaic theory" of the Fourth Amendment in <a href= "https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=853695326923033538">Carpenter v. US</a>, 585 US 296 (2018).</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Sens. Lujan and Merkley have co-sponsored the <a href= "https://www.lujan.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MUR26086-1.pdf"> Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act of 2026</a>. Gizmodo recently ran a <a href= "https://gizmodo.com/dems-want-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-at-big-grocery-stores-2000722182"> story</a> about it, referencing prior research into dynamic pricing.</p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Florida's attorney general gets $100K part-time teaching job at UF</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/02/17/uthmeier-uf-adjunct-teaching-contract-pay-attorney-general/"> https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2026/02/17/uthmeier-uf-adjunct-teaching-contract-pay-attorney-general/</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Soto Jimenez v. Bondi</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72221590/soto-jimenez-v-bondi/"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72221590/soto-jimenez-v-bondi/</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Matter of Yajure Hurtado</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1413311/dl?inline">https://www.justice.gov/eoir/media/1413311/dl?inline</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Maldonado Bautista v. Noem</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70895584/lazaro-maldonado-bautista-v-ernesto-santacruz-jr/"> https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70895584/lazaro-maldonado-bautista-v-ernesto-santacruz-jr/</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">US v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012)</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3066032366235422373">https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3066032366235422373</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Carpenter v. US, 585 US 296 (2018)</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=853695326923033538">https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=853695326923033538</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Text of the Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act of 2026</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.lujan.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MUR26086-1.pdf"> https://www.lujan.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/MUR26086-1.pdf</a></p> <p> </p> <p dir="ltr">Show Links:</p> <p dir="ltr"><a href= "https://www.lawandchaospod.com/">https://www.lawandchaospod.com/</a></p> <p dir="ltr">BlueSky: @LawAndChaosPod</p> <p dir="ltr">Threads: @LawAndChaosPod</p> <p dir="ltr">Twitter: @LawAndChaosPod</p> <p> </p>

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