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Re:Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists t... by dragonwriter on Friday April 05, 2019 @05:31PM (#19587234)
> So who from the federal government is charged for their part of the crime?

What crime? The charges were for a civil violation of state consumer protection law, which restricted the behavior of the motel, not ICE.

Even if ICE officials, in the federally-lawful conduct of their duties could be subject to state law, I don't see any indication that they did anything that would have broken the law at issue, which prohibits the disclosure, not the request.

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Re:Motel 6 to Pay $12M after Improperly Giving Guest Lists t... by trhway on Saturday April 06, 2019 @02:38AM (#19589599)
>Even if ICE officials, in the federally-lawful conduct of their duties could be subject to state law, I don't see any indication that they did anything that would have broken the law at issue, which prohibits the disclosure, not the request.

i wonder whether the agents may be breaking any law if say the night manager informed them that he couldn't legally disclose the information, yet the agents would still pressure him into giving it up. Wouldn't the agents thus become participants of a conspiracy to violate that law [IANAL]?

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