Fortunately, in 2005, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (in Virginia) upheld federal agents' authority to conduct suspicionless border searches of a person, his personal property and his laptop computer.

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The fact that the beverage itself was forbidden to me--I cadged sips from my older brothers--only enhanced the bottle caps'authority as agents of mystery.

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Rather, he argued that the agents who issued the notice of deficiency lacked proper authority and that the notices violated the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

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Little is being done to prosecute the people in those countries who run the ivory trade, he said, largely because they are often local government officials who use their authority to sidestep inspections and intimidate law enforcement agents.

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