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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Lawyers for a San Francisco man charged with operating an online marketplace for illegal drugs are asking a judge to toss out most of the evidence against him, saying the Fourth Amendment protects their client from "indiscriminate rummaging" through his entire online history.

The lawyers, Joshua Dratel and Lindsay Lewis, said in court papers that the government violated the ban on illegal search and seizure when it scoured the computers, servers and websites 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht used.

They said applications for search warrants described an investigation that began in early 2013 with a server hosting the Silk Road website in a foreign country.

"The wholesale collection and study of Mr. Ulbricht's entire digital history without limitation expressly sought in the warrants and granted represent the very type of indiscriminate rummaging that caused the American colonists so much consternation," according to the papers filed late Friday in federal court in Manhattan.

Ulbricht has pleaded not guilty to charges of narcotics trafficking, computer hacking, running a continuing criminal enterprise and money laundering. His trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 3.

Prosecutors say Ulbricht went by the online handle the Dread Pirate Roberts, an apparent reference to a character in the movie "The Princess Bride," and turned the underground site into a place where anonymous users could buy or sell contraband and illegal services.

Authorities say Silk Road, which had nearly 1 million registered users by July 2013, generated more than $1 billion in illicit business from January 2011 through September. Federal investigators say Silk Road users anonymously browsed through nearly 13,000 listings under such categories as cannabis, psychedelics and stimulants.

The website used Bitcoin, the tough-to-track digital currency, before it was shut down.

Ulbricht was arrested last year at a public library in San Francisco, where he lived. Authorities said he was chatting online at the time with a co-operating witness. He remains incarcerated without bail.

A prosecutor's spokeswoman declined to comment Monday.

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DAYTONA BEACH The city has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging its 2-year-old residential rental inspection program is unconstitutional.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court accuses the city of violating local renters and landlords Fourth Amendment and 14th Amendment rights. The suit argues city inspectors should have probable cause to believe theres been a violation of law and search warrants before they enter leased homes, and that poor people and minorities are being discriminated against because they most often are renters.

The potential for perverse abuse of this power the city claims to have is stunning, said Ponte Vedra Beach attorney Andrew M. Bonderud, the plaintiffs lawyer in the legal action.

Bonderud is representing landlord Jack Aberman, who owns dozens of properties on Daytonas beachside, and three of his tenants. Aberman, a shareholder in GEA Seaside Investment Inc., hasnt allowed inspectors inside his rental homes and hes been papered to death by the city with demands to inspect, Bonderud said.

City Attorney Marie Hartman said Tuesday she hadnt read the lawsuit yet and couldnt comment. Mike Garrett, the citys chief building official, couldnt be reached for comment.

The city has long inspected large rental properties with five or more units, but it wasnt until the summer of 2012 that city commissioners OKd a program that would regularly allow an inspector into rental homes with one to four units to look for everything from broken steps to electrical hazards. The program aims to send an inspector to every rental property with four units or less throughout the city, but its starting with the beachside, where theres a large concentration of older homes that have been subdivided into apartments.

Community leaders and government officials argue overhauling the citys beachside residential rental stock is vital to reviving the area. More than 1,100 rental units have been inspected so far, and nearly half have been cited for code violations.

Those who comply and make repairs quickly are out only the $50 per unit inspection charge and another $40 for an application fee. Those who have not made themselves available for the program or who have not fixed problems are being sent to a special magistrate for hearings.

Delinquent landlords face fines or liens attached to their rental homes. Bonderud argues in his lawsuit that the special magistrate and other city officials have powers that are too broad under the city rental inspection law.

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