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AP: Appeals court to hear case dealing with seizure of players’ samples

Internal Revenue Service agents, acting on a search warrant, seized computer files containing the test results during raids of labs involved in Major League Baseball’s survey drug tests in 2003, which the union and management had agreed would remain anonymous.

The investigators had search warrants for 11 players, but ended up seizing the samples of every big league player from Quest Diagnostics of Teterboro, N.J., and Comprehensive Drug Testing of Long Beach, Calif. The government argued that it seized everything because the 11 names it wanted were mixed with the other names on computer hard drives.

then:

Lawyers from the Major League Baseball Players Association sued and claimed allowing the government to use the seized medical records without previous evidence of a crime would create a dangerous precedent

Gestapo tactics by the Feds or legal search and seizure? Discuss.

Posted: November 20, 2008 at 01:20 PM | 7 comment(s) | Login to Bookmark
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1. Chris D Posted: November 20, 2008 at 03:03 PM (#3012970)

Everyone who has ever been involved in a Employee Assistance Program should understand that government seizure of employer-mandated drug testing records and subsequent use of those records will cripple such programs. Confidentiality -- trust -- is the cornerstone of an EAP's success.

2. Craig Calcaterra Posted: November 20, 2008 at 03:44 PM (#3013007)

Gestapo tactics by the Feds or legal search and seizure? Discuss.

Well, back when we used to have a Fourth Amendment in this country it was an easier call, but now it's decidedly more gray.

/fancy way of saying I have no idea and no time to think about it legally.

3. scareduck Posted: November 20, 2008 at 04:56 PM (#3013087)

The Fourth Amendment is null and void, apparently.

4. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: November 20, 2008 at 05:03 PM (#3013099)

hey--it's steroids--so anything goes

(think of the children)

5. Walt Davis Posted: November 20, 2008 at 05:36 PM (#3013128)

Gestapo tactics by the Feds or legal search and seizure?

The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

Or to paraphrase Clarence Thomas, in surely one of the few times I agreed with him: "Just because it sucks doesn't mean it's unconstitutional."

Which is not an opinion on this case necessarily.

6. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo)

Posted: November 20, 2008 at 07:17 PM (#3013224)

Or to paraphrase Clarence Thomas, in surely one of the few times I agreed with him: "Just because it sucks doesn't mean it's unconstitutional."
So is Monica Lewinsky even legal, or not?

7. Halofan Posted: November 20, 2008 at 09:07 PM (#3013347)

Pigs again.

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