Florida Vs. Jardines: Saving An Enchanted Rainforest

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Florida v. Jardines: How Saving a Tree from a Tinkling Canine can Preserve an Enchanted Rainforest I. Introduction Imagine that trees represent our individual rights and that an enchanted rainforest symbolizes all of these rights. Similar to a magical inhabitant of an enchanted rainforest who fought to save his home that was being threatened by tree logging, Justice Scalia has acted as this magical creature. Scalia’s opinion in Florida v. Jardines has protected one of these trees, one of the sacred “bundles of sticks” from a polluting force of destruction known as the drug-sniffing canine. By affirming the Florida Supreme Court’s decision1 and holding that the government’s use of dog-sniffing canines to investigate a home for narcotics is a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment 2 , Scalia has protected a sacred property right from being tinkled on.…show more content…
Jardines, the Court revived this deep-rooted property theory7 and declined to extend a reasonable expectation of privacy inquiry.8 In Jardines,
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