Summary: On this week’s show we discuss the following three cases: Missouri v. McNeely (11-1425) - Does the exigent circumstances exception to the 4th Amendment's warrants requirement permit police to subject a suspected drunk driver to a blood test on the ground that the alcohol level in the suspect’s blood is dissipating with each passing second. Ryan v. Gonzales (10-930) and Tibbals v. Carter (11-218) - Federal law does not provide a state prisoner a right to suspension of his federal habeas proceedings when he is adjudged incompetent. Los Angeles County Flood Control Dist. v. Natural Resources Council, Inc. (11-460) - The flow of water from an improved portion of a navigable waterway into an unimproved portion of the same waterway does not qualify as a “discharge of a pollutant” under the Clean Water Act. The case documents are HERE
