Louise Jacobs writes: A High Court judge has lifted an anonymity order protecting the identity of a formerly married couple involved in a privacy dispute. In Stephanie Hirschfeld v James McGrath [2011] EWHC 249 (QB), Ms Hirschfeld, the ex-wife of Mr McGrath, had obtained an interim injunction on 4 February 2011 to restrain the publication of certain confidential…
Category: Court
Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court’s privacy cop
GWU law professor Jeffrey Rosen writes: Justice Samuel Alito has become America’s privacy cop. By an 8 to 1 vote this past week, the Supreme Court upheld the First Amendment right of Kansas’s Westboro Baptist Church to engage in hateful protests at military funerals. The lone dissenter was Alito, who insisted that the grieving relatives…
Nova Scotia CA Favors Transparency Over Youth Privacy in Facebook Defamation Case
Dan Michaluk writes: The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has just issued a decision in which it affirmed a decision to deny a potential defamation claimant the use of a pseudonym (initials) in pursuing a defamation claim.The appeal was brought by a 15-year-old girl who has taken issue with an individual who created a fake…
IL: County Judge Tosses Out Naperville Woman’s Internet Privacy Case
Dan Campana reports on a case where an ISP fought its own customer’s attempt to block them from revealing her identity information: A Naperville woman’s attempt to keep her Internet identity private proved to be short lived in DuPage County court. Iris Tam had filed an “emergency” request in late 2010 asking a judge to…