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Assuming there even is one. I have yet to hear of an instance where that has been the case.There is a case where it would be interfereing with an ongoing federal investigation. That's a felony.
The fact that it can cause issues in court or be flat out illegal when done improperly implies that it is unlikely to be illegal or cause issues when conducted properly. Which was the point.Lesser issues, some of which have been mentioned, are that it can get a case thrown out of court. Human rights violations, coercion, tampered and inadmissible evidence, inadmissible confessions.
Private investigators are very limited in their action, and are very meticulous with with evidence collection if it may go to court. It stops with having clean and sufficient grounds for a subpoena and direct contact is usually minimal. While there is a certain image to the PI, most work with attorneys doing evidence collection and are bound by rules of evidence
Again, you can split hairs on the cowish behavior of the predator catchers who refuse to evolve from reckless amateurism but it's been done right before and if Rosen continues to clean up his act he'll hopefully be a good example of it being done right again.