Federal Appellate Court Approves ‘Pretext’ Border Search
For almost nine years, Chinese national and U.S. resident Haitao Xiang had been employed by the Monsanto company in St. Louis, Missouri, as a research application engineer specializing in hyperspectral imaging technology. As with most jobs of this type, Xiang had signed a non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement with his employer, agreeing not to take and/or..