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Morgan L Manning

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2010

Civil Rights

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Picture This- A Right With No Meaningful Remedy: The Right To Take Pictures In Public Places And The Inadequacy Of Bivens, Section 1983, Ftca And Other Remedies, Morgan L. Manning Apr 2010

Picture This- A Right With No Meaningful Remedy: The Right To Take Pictures In Public Places And The Inadequacy Of Bivens, Section 1983, Ftca And Other Remedies, Morgan L. Manning

Morgan L Manning

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The right of individuals to take photographs in public places is eroding. A simple Google search reveals countless incidents involving people being detained, questioned and in many cases arrested for lawfully taking pictures of people and structures that are in plain view of the general public. These people have been harassed, embarrassed and charged with crimes pursuant to broadly worded criminal statutes. They have had their cameras confiscated and their memory cards, sometimes containing thousands of pictures, deleted. It is my belief that the War on Terror and the War on Drugs have given law enforcement officials a false …


Picture This- A Right With No Meaningful Remedy: The Right To Take Pictures In Public Places And The Inadequacy Of Bivens, Section 1983 And Other Remedies, Morgan L. Manning Apr 2010

Picture This- A Right With No Meaningful Remedy: The Right To Take Pictures In Public Places And The Inadequacy Of Bivens, Section 1983 And Other Remedies, Morgan L. Manning

Morgan L Manning

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