I Am Not a Lawyer

One post, from the Ninth Circuit Blog, has to do with the Ninth’s April 21 decision in United States v. Arnold. If this post is accurate — I doubt they’re lying, but I won’t have time today to read the whole decision — it seems that the government is free, at least in this circuit, to search through the laptop computers of international travelers without reasonable suspicion. No, seriously, they outright said that. (What liberal Ninth?) Single men returning from Asia, prepare to be profiled.

Then the court comes under fire from its Seventh Circuit colleagues. In this post from The UCL Practitioner, by Kimberly Kralowec, she notes that the Seventh (in April 15’s Springman v. AIG Marketing, Inc.) was extremely critical about a recent Ninth Circuit ruling having to do with the Class Action Fairness Act (McAtee v. Capital One). I found this notable mainly because it was so… snarky, even by the standards of adults who aren’t federal appellate judges.