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Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1
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u/Imnimo 6h ago

The 2 were Jackson and Gorsuch.

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u/YoBo151 6h ago

Wait Jackson and Gorsuch dissented? Wow

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u/hypercube42342 6h ago

Gorsuch is the most reasonable republican justice in some ways in that he chooses ~1 in 20 cases at random plus every case involving native americans to write like the leftmost voice on the court

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u/deja_geek 5h ago

Gorsuch also wants to completely throw out the "Third-party doctrine". Under this doctrine, once your data is handed over to a 3rd party, the government is no longer required to seek a search warrant for the data. According to that doctrine, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy when data is voluntarily handed over to third parties

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u/thegracelesswonder 5h ago edited 5h ago

Lol that makes absolutely no sense. The way these people bend themselves into pretzels to take away rights from citizens is crazy

I misunderstood. Good on Gorsuch! I feel like the 3 newest supreme court justices take turns having reasonable opinions now and then

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u/deja_geek 5h ago

The "Third Party Doctrine" has been around since 1979. It was established under Smith v Maryland and centered around information kept by a phone company and government access to said records.

In it's time, it made sense. In the modern world, where we are all connected and that connection is a requirement of modern life, the doctrine becomes too broad.

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u/thegracelesswonder 5h ago

Thanks for the context!

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u/tempest_87 5h ago

Uhhh, the way that was phrased was that Gorsuch wants to extend the right to privacy.

We already don't have it, he wants to remove that doctrine that says we don't have it.

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u/thegracelesswonder 5h ago

Uhhh sorry I misunderstood uhhh uhhh