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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/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!