Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gatech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!strick From: strick@gatech.UUCP (henry strickland) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Re: Where are radar detectors illegal? Message-ID: <11581@gatech.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 17:21:00 EST Article-I.D.: gatech.11581 Posted: Wed Jan 9 17:21:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 23:16:56 EST References: <448@mhuxt.UUCP> <193@panda.UUCP> <258@enmasse.UUCP> <11551@gatech.UUCP> <4853@fortune.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: the clouds project, school of ics, georgia tech Lines: 33 > It is illegal to have a radar detector in CT. If they find one, they > take it. If you take them to court, you lose (illegal). > > AH!! Now the catch! > > If you appeal enough to make it to FEDERAL COURT, you will > WIN!!! > > The FCC Act says the Gov't may not infringe upon anyones > RECEPTION of electromagnetic radiation. > > But no one has appealed this particular statute that far. Yet. > > This does point up an interesting problem in Law: The State or > Municipality which KNOWINGLY makes a law which is illegal. > > Charlie Tierney (fortune!tierney) Charlie -- thanks for answering my question about the FCC. Now .... who knows about the interesting problem in Law? I suppose this happens all the time, since you always hear of higher courts declaring things unconstitutional, or whatnot. Has anyone taken action against a State that KNOWINGLY makes illegal laws? Or against the people who wrote it? Is there a special place in the Inferno for them? -- -- henry strickland -- the clouds project { akgua allegra hplabs inhp4 } -- school of ics / ga tech !gatech!strick -- atlanta ga 30332