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Save Your Breath: A Constitutional Analysis Of The Criminal Penalties For Refusing Breathalyzer Tests In The Wake Of Birchfield V. North Dakota, Kylie Fisher Jan 2019

Save Your Breath: A Constitutional Analysis Of The Criminal Penalties For Refusing Breathalyzer Tests In The Wake Of Birchfield V. North Dakota, Kylie Fisher

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Statutes that criminally penalize suspected drunk drivers who refuse to submit to testing of their blood alcohol concentration emerged in a number of states as a way to better enforce implied consent statutes that require drivers submit to such testing. In Birchfield v. North Dakota, the Supreme Court held that statutes that criminally punish individuals for refusing a blood test were unconstitutional but upheld criminal refusal statutes regarding breath tests. Much of the reasoning in the majority’s opinion stemmed from a shallow perception of the invasion that breath tests pose to individual privacy interests. Justice Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion noted …


Managing Boundary Management: A Reply To Professor Kaminski, Ryan Calo Jan 2016

Managing Boundary Management: A Reply To Professor Kaminski, Ryan Calo

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This piece is a response to Margot Kaminski, https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wlr/vol90/iss3/3/">Regulating Real-World Surveillance, 90 Wash. L. Rev. 1113 (2015).