Ever rolled your tires to try and cover up the meter maid’s chalk mark? No, me neither . . . But even if you haven’t, you might not have to worry about tire chalk marks much longer. Josh Windham explains how the Sixth Circuit has said that’s an unreasonable search. And out West it turns out there’s so much law in Yellowstone National Park (the Wyoming bit, at least) that a camper gets out of an assault charge because of a law called the ACA (just not the one you’re thinking of). The camper didn’t commit the Perfect Crime, but Dan Alban talks about it while he’s in the district.

Taylor v. City of Saginaw

United States v. Harris

Brian Kalt, The Perfect Crime

C.J. Box, Free Fire

Dan Alban, https://staging.ij.org/staff/dalban/
Josh Windham, https://staging.ij.org/staff/joshua-windham/
Anthony Sanders, https://staging.ij.org/staff/asanders/

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