Orin Kerr discusses a case that is of special interest these days when some WikiLeaks volunteers or known associates of Pfc Bradley Manning are reporting that whenever they travel, their computers and cell phones are seized and they are harassed questioned for hours: Back in 2009, I blogged about a fascinating Fourth Amendment district court…
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Orin Kerr on Kentucky v. King and Fourth Amendment rights
Orin Kerr was on C-SPAN talking about the upcoming SCOTUS arguments in Kentucky v. King and Fourth Amendment Rights: You can read the comments on The Volokh Conspiracy. H/T, FourthAmendment.com
Court: Tucows doesn’t have to reveal name of user of privacy service
O’Raghallaigh of Managing Intellectual Property notes that the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling in Balsam v. Tucows holding that Tucows was not obliged to reveal the identity of one of their registrants who used the firm’s Angeles privacy protection service. Balsam had sought the identity of the individual who…
Our View: Court hangs up on Fourth Amendment
An editorial in the Appeal- Democrat addresses the Ninth Circuit decision in Diaz: The California Supreme Court has expanded law enforcement authority at the expense of privacy and personal liberty by allowing police to confiscate and search cell phones of people they arrest without first obtaining a search warrant. In a 5-2 decision Jan. 3,…