Clarence Walker writes: Recent federal and state court decisions that overturned narcotic convictions of suspected drug dealers as a result of law enforcement using warrantless GPS tracking devices to watch suspects have triggered an intense debate over the Fourth Amendment, which provides citizens against unreasonable search and seizures. The GPS controversy is at the center…
Category: Court
CCR Warrantless Wiretapping Case Dismissed By Federal Judge
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has issued a statement following a ruling by Judge Vaughn Walker, reported on this blog earlier today, dismissing their lawsuit against the NSA over warrantless surveillance: Last night the federal district court in San Francisco dismissed CCR v. Obama, a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)…
Ex-husband in hacking case denies trying to tap police files
Another development in the Michigan case where an ex-husband is charged with hacking into his then-wife’s email account. Mike Martindale reports: A Rochester Hills man charged with snooping in his ex-wife’s e-mail without permission said Monday he never tried to tap into Oakland County’s police database system, as alleged by the prosecutor, but was only…
Federal court grants NSA’s motion for summary judgement in CCR’s lawsuit over warrantless wiretapping
Maria Dinzeo reports on Courthouse News: Fear of government eavesdropping is not a sufficient constitutional injury, a federal judge ruled, throwing out the claims of a law firm that had claimed it was illegally spied upon by a government-sponsored wiretapping program initiated in the wake of Sept. 11. The Center for Constitutional Rights and its…