U.S. Supreme Court,
Constitutional Law
Jan. 12, 2017
When analogies fail
Nowhere is the challenge to integrate the advance of technology into the law more public than in the U.S. Supreme Court's efforts to apply the Fourth Amendment to new technologies.
2nd Appellate District, Division 5
Brian M. Hoffstadt
Presiding Justice
California Court of Appeal
UCLA School of Law, 1995
2017 is here. We are now part way between the idyllic 2015 depicted in "Back to the Future II" and the dystopian 2019 portended in "Blade Runner." Neither prognostication got it completely right, but both accurately predicted the continued advance of technology.
Integrating this seemingly unstoppable advance into the law that reflects and defines our society and its values is another thing entirely. Nowhere is the challenge more public than in the U.S. Supreme Court's efforts to appl...
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