Five of the nine judges ruled that officers needed a court-approved warrant to get access to the data, setting a higher legal hurdle than had existed under federal law.

However, this has thrown up complex legal hurdles, involving whether visiting politicians are, in effect, given immunity.

There are legal hurdles to cross as well.

Do not get me wrong, lifetime bans are not an irrelevance (although any such proposal would be subject to formidable legal hurdles), but they are far from being a panacea.

Forest fires, excessive snowfall, angry hunters, financial and legal hurdles at one time or another caused the couple to worry about the long-term viability of the project.