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by zerocrates 884 days ago
The third-party doctrine was created by the courts, not Congress. US v. Miller and Smith v. Maryland are the typically-cited sources of it.
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Is this the same Miller where the courts ruled in a case against an undefended dead guy that NFA, which now is amended to outlaw registry of new automatic weapons, was constitutional because it was just a revenue collection law and preserved right to military-type weapons?
No, different Miller. This one is from 1976.
A third Miller was involved in the free speech case, Miller v California in 1973, that resulted in the "Miller test" for obscenity which is pretty much the law today.