Associate Justice David Souter wrote one of the most praised, and pilloried, dissents to a U.S. Supreme Court canine decision ever written, noting in Illinois v. Caballes, 543 U.S. 405 (2005), that the “infallible dog is … a creature of legal fiction.” His views on the two canine cases in the fall docket of the Supreme Court, Jardines (Docket No. 11-564) and Harris (Docket No. 11-817), would be very interesting. In Harris, the Supreme Court will consider whether establishing probable cause for a vehicle search requires that the...
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Service Dog Can’t Ride in Ambulance with Master, but Should Be Able to Travel in Police Car
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Recent Publications on Cancer Screening, Cueing, and the Fall Supreme Court Docket
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Darwin’s Dogs
Canine genetics papers often contain a reference to Charles Darwin, usually to On the Origin of Species, where he said that it is “almost certain that our dogs are descended from several wild stocks.” This conclusion remained possible until put to rest by modern genome research. (E.g., Ostrander and Wayne, 2005; Larson, Karlsson, Perri, et al., 2012) Wolf in London Zoological Gardens (Stonehenge, 1859)It is a testament to Darwin's...
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