Legal Opinion
In re J.M.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 6, 1991No. 90-183PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 479, 48 S.Ct. 564, 572-73, 72 L.Ed. 944 (1928) (Brandeis, J., dissenting).
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THE CASE
This case concerns a collision between this nation’s “war” against the pernicious drug trade and the constitutional…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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3Cited by8 opinions
- United States v. Steven Angelo WardCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1992
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- Burton v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1994
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