A person identified in court papers as ‘Lina’ took photographs and video of a person identified as POI in a situation in which POI said they had a reasonable expectation of privacy. POI won an injunction preventing the publication of the private information, having argued that the the publishing of the information would breach their…
Category: Court
Post details: CA3: Drug testing of a mere “weed-wacker” in a highly regulated industry was still valid
John Wesley Hall of FourthAmendment.com does not agree with the court’s decision in Mollo v. Passaic Valley Sewerage Comm’rs. From the unpublished opinion: Here, PVSC demonstrated that Mollo was aware of the safety concerns inherent in work at its treatment plant and, as an entity, PVSC clearly satisfies PBA Local 304‘s alternative criterion of a “long tradition…
Access to Personal E-mails Enough for Statutory Damages under Federal Stored Communications Act . . . Even With No Actual Damages
Joseph Lazzarotti writes: Employers need to exercise care when accessing employees’ e-mails, particularly e-mails on personal e-mail accounts. In Pure Power Boot Camp Inc. v. Warrior Fitness Boot Camp LLC, a non-compete case that turned into a case about the privacy of stored e-mails and violations of the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA), the court held: SCA…
Police DNA retention lawful in spite of human rights court ruling, says NI High Court
Northern Ireland’s High Court of Justice has ruled that police retention of a 14 year old boy’s DNA was not illegal, despite a European Court of Human Rights ruling that the blanket data retention policy conflicts with human rights law. The Court said that it could not follow the ruling from the European Court of…