Iowa Department of Public Safety releases statement on sports wagering investigation
- Thread starter NorthernHawkeye
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Your position is:
“It'll be interesting to see how this all plays out. Two sides to every story, legalities and otherwise.”
That’s it? Gonna Switzerland it? No inkling something went wrong here?
That's for the courts to decide.
Even so, if determined legal, and if it was a fishing expedition, I don't approve.
Good question. The student athletes have something called and injury in fact which is one of the key components a federal court will evaluate in relation to standing. These athletes were in fact injured by the actions of the state
For example, in Laird v. Tatum, the Court held that plaintiffs challenging a domestic surveillance program lacked standing when their alleged injury stemmed from a "subjective chill," as opposed to a "claim of specific present objective harm or a threat of specific future harm."39 And in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, the Court explained that a concrete injury requires that an injury must "actually exist" or there must be a "risk of real harm," such that a plaintiff who alleges nothing more than a bare procedural violation of a federal statute cannot satisfy the injury-in-fact requirement.40
The student athletes may not want to sue but they should do so in federal court. What the state did here is egregious
Iowa athletes suing over betting investigation
More than two dozen athletes who were based in Iowa have filed a federal lawsuit alleging state criminal investigators violated their constitutional rights during a widespread sports wagering investigation.
What happens if the state settles for millions of dollars . . . will you still be waiting for the courts to decide???? Besides we already know it was a fishing expedition. Done at multiple college facilities, before they finally got the information needed . . . ya know to actually get a warrant.
