Laura Silvius reports: A judge ruled Monday that electronic communications between a cellular telephone belonging to the Rev. Edward Hinds of St. Patrick Church and cell phone towers will be allowed in the trial against Hinds’ accused murderer, Jose Feliciano. Police requested the communications or “pings” between the phone and towers from Verizon over a…
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Waller claims privacy breach caused PTSD
Brionna Friedrich reports: Ray Waller has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the release of documents by Calaveras County, according to a psychologist hired by his attorney. After Waller was dismissed from his post as chief building official in 2007, the county released 1,200 documents from his personnel file in response to…
Search incident to arrest ruling out of touch with growing trend
John Wesley Hall notes another search incident to arrest ruling, this one out of Tennessee: Looking at defendant’s cell phone text messages was permitted by the search incident doctrine. United States v. Grooms, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10824 (E.D. Tenn. January 3, 2011) John’s commentary: [Note: This case follows, without out saying so, the rationale…
Facebook user had standing to challenge subpoena seeking his profile information
Evan Brown writes: Mancuso v. Florida Metropolitan University, Inc., 2011 WL 310726 (S.D. Fla. January 28, 2011 ) Plaintiff sued his former employer seeking back overtime wages. In preparing its defense of the case, the employer sent supboenas to Facebook and Myspace seeking information about plaintiff’s use of those platforms. […] Plaintiff moved to quash…