Frank Green reports: A federal judge in Richmond has ruled that the government may use emails between former Del. Phillip A. Hamilton and his wife in his upcoming bribery and extortion trial. […] Hamilton’s lawyers said the emails are not admissible because of his Fourth Amendment right to privacy and the privilege of protecting confidential…
Category: Court
Man’s best friend may not be his dog (sniff, sniff!)
Have I ever mentioned how much I look forward to reading FourthAmendment.com each day to see John Wesley Hall has posted? Here’s a gem: Leslie A. Lunney, Has the Fourth Amendment Gone to the Dogs?: Unreasonable Expansion of Canine Sniff Doctrine to Include Sniffs of the Home, 88 Or. L. Rev. 829 (2009). A snippet from…
DOJ filing would create dangerous precedent on privacy policies
Declan McCullagh reports: The U.S. Justice Department today dismissed as “absurd” any privacy and free speech concerns about its request for access to the Twitter accounts of WikiLeaks volunteers. In a 32-page brief filed in federal court in Virginia, prosecutors characterized their request for a court order as a “routine compelled disclosure” that raises no…
Does public curiosity = right to know in Germany? A court decision that puzzles me.
Eric Kelsey reports: A German millionaire’s complaint that publishing his net worth on a magazine’s rich list was an invasion of privacy has been dismissed by a judge on grounds of public interest, the court said on Friday. The attorney for one of Germany’s richest men told the judge in the Bavarian capital of Munich…