Police must obtain search warrants before perusing Internet users' e-mail records, a federal appeals court ruled today in a landmark decision that struck down part of a 1986 law allowing warrantless access.
In case involving a penile-enhancement entrepreneur convicted of fraud and other crimes, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals said that the practice of warrantless access to e-mail messages violates the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable" searches and seizures.
"Given the fundamental similarities between e-mail and traditional forms of communication, it would defy common sense to afford e-mails lesser Fourth Amendment protection," the court ruled in an 3-0 opinion (PDF) written by Judge Danny Boggs, a Reagan appointee.
BearMtnHIB wrote: And don't forget to thank Obama - for continuing the bad policy making the court case necessary to be completed.
Yes, let's blame Obama for not getting rid of Bush's unconstitutional policies...while saddled with a Senate that requires a 60-vote margin to decide what toilet-paper to purchase for the Senate restrooms....
Doesn't it hurt your neck to twist so hard in the wind?
LadyJazzer wrote: Thanks again, Bush, for making it necessary by implementing an unconstitutional policy in the first place.
Wait a minute, you mean we had two presidents in 1986 when the law was passed and that one of them was in office for over 20 years in direct violation of the 22nd Amendment to make certain we never had another dictator the likes of FDR in this nation? Wow, whodathunkit that possible?
LadyJazzer wrote: Yeah, like it wasn't expanded, exponentially, under the so-called Patriot Act...
LadyjAZZer needs a lesson in history?
Who voted for Patriot Act?
These are the 89 U.S. senators who voted in favor of the March 2, 2006 Patriot Act Reauthorizing Act
Obama (D-IL) Yea
Salazar (D-CO) Yea
Reid (D-NV) Yea
Kennedy (D-MA) Yea
Kerry (D-MA) Yea
rofllol 
