The other day, I posted a news story about a New Jersey Supreme Court decision concerning what expungement means – and doesn’t mean – in terms of the media’s ability to discuss a case involving a named individual where the individual’s conviction was subsequently expunged. At the time, I commented that once again, a U.S….
Category: Court
Warrantless GPS Tracking Facing Fourth Amendment Challenges
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…
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…