Re:Slaughterhouse Cases (Score 1)

I don't believe this law actually says what TFA says it does. Read it. The para in particular is under a subhead of "Investigation companies" and, elsewhere, I've seen the shrill explanation that the State might decide that the troubleshooting process is "investigation" or that merely seeing the data constitutes "investigating." I don't think that's the case and, as the owner of a PC shop who was considering going into forensics only to trip over this, I've actually consulted several lawyers about it already.

I think this is a grand publicity stunt perpetrated by a PAC and a couple of tag-along PC shops. Read the Institute for Justice's PR piece about this. At no point does it explain the legal reasoning; it just states the story as though it's established fact. Notice also that none of the shops in their lawsuit have actually been told that they need a PI license; they are all "concerned" that the state "might."

Even better, notice that the Inst. for Justice is taking this opportunity to open a new branch in Texas. This, really, is just their PR blast announcing that fact, and they've dreamed up this crazy talk to make it bigger news.

It's a PR stunt, plain and simple, and a piss poor one at that. And the PC shops going along with it should be horribly, horribly ashamed of themselves for taking part.