Law & Sovereignty

[maryschurr]

I happened upon this today and thought I would share. Most of you probably know this, but in case you do not. I would think this would be important even if you are not a hunter on your property. It’s a PDF attached.

Property owners are fighting a Prohibition-era Supreme Court decision that laid the groundwork for government agents to enter and search private land at will.

Hunter-Hopes-to-Change-Doctrine-That-Gives-Wildlife-Agents-Free-Rein-on-Private-Property-_-The-Epoch-Times.pdf 27 MB PDF - Click to view

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[Dorothy]

Im wondering what actually is the doctrine?

[maryschurr]

@dorothy.mandel , here is the basic part without copying too much of the document. You will probably need to use the download feature to read it or so it seems. Hopefully, this helps…
“The Supreme Court instituted the “open fields doctrine” through a
series of decisions beginning in 1924. This doctrine interprets the
Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as giving the government
carte blanche access to billions of acres of private property—in other
words, Fourth Amendment protection doesn’t extend to open fields.”

[Dorothy]

Thanks for that. As far as I can tell it is the curtilage or area around a property and not the actual privately owned property so I’m a bit confused tho have not seen entire doctrine and likely could not translate or make sense of it if I did. I’m hoping someone who has understands is looking at original doc.

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