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Old Aug 16, 2004 | 10:58 pm
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Originally Posted by mizzou65201
Mr. Gilmore could have flown, but chose not to submit himself to an otherwise legal search. By extension, the government can not be said to have committed a violation of the loosely defined "right to travel" if they never did actually deny him that right.
You'd think the man could update his old Web site rather than spawning a new one. I haven't had time to read the entire appeal, or even dig up the decision, but if one reads the original complaint at www.freetotravel.org, it's clear that the immediate problem was that he refused to provide ID to WN, which probably would have iced the deal even absent Hiibel.
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