[extropy-chat] ILE: life just got a little more complicated

[Karen Rand Smigrodzki]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lorrey" PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] ILE: life just got a little more complicated


>
> --- Karen Rand Smigrodzki> > Further, and finally, the Court held
> > that the corporation could claim a 4th Amendment privilege against
> > unreasonable search and seizure of documents, but the witness
> > (officer of the corporation) could not claim the same in relation
> > to production for the
> > grand jury of documents of the corporation for investigations into
> > violations of the Anti-Trust Act of 1890.
>
> Isn't this just an end-run, though? Doesn't it completely eviscerate
> the 4th Amendment (and I REALLY don't get applying the 4th to a
> corporation and not an individual, esp given conspiracy law, where the
> right hand does not need to know what the left hand is doing to be
culpable)?
>
>

         The case, Hale v Henkel, is irrelevant. The case is out of date,
the statutes sections amended and/or repealed long ago.

karen