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Seated from left: Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, standing from left: Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett pose during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC on April 23, 2021.
The Supreme Court of the United States handed down two 9-0 opinions Monday, proving that the often-contentious bench can come together in cases involving tax law and criminal procedure.
In the first, CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service, the Court ruled on the scope of the Anti-Injunction Act, a statute which limits lawsuits seeking to block the assessment or collection of a tax. The Court ruled that despite a federal law prohibiting lawsuits aimed at striking down taxes, not every IRS rule is considered a �
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“The Fourth Amendment protects “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” The “‘very core’ ” of this guarantee is “ ‘the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.’ ”
In CANIGLIA
v. STROM the Court found that police had overreached in a warrantless search. After tricking the plaintiff into seeking psychiatric help, the police seized his weapons after agreeing to the condition that they would not seize the weapons. The police had relied on “community caretaking exception” to the warrant requirement, putting them in “Community Service role, a position other than that of law enforcement. The case went to the Supreme Court and the Court ruled that the warrantless search was unjustified.
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