Short Circuit

Stories we hope our listeners can relate to this week: borrowing cars and lousy neighbors. First, from the Sixth Circuit, IJ’s Rob Frommer details how a man sitting in the passenger seat of a running car somehow lost his Fourth Amendment standing. And went to prison. And then in the Second Circuit your host explores what can be done when your neighbor is an embassy. It’s an all-too-familiar tale of a building project gone awry but with a twist of sovereign immunity.   Register for the May 10 open fields conference! U.S. v. Rogers Harvey v. Sierra Leone Neighbors 1980’s opening song Fawlty Towers—The Builders