enigmax writes: Today a judge-ordered hearing took place in the Patents Court to decide how to handle all cases filed by ACS:Law against alleged file-sharers. Despite claims by the law firm that they have no fears of going to court, last week all the cases were dropped and today, supported by claims of “an unfortunate…
Category: Court
Court to Consider Constitutionality of Personality Rights Statute
One type of privacy claim is the right of publicity. In some states, the right of publicity survives death, as noted in a recent blog post on Copylaw about a case involving Einstein costumes. Now Michael Atkins reports on a case in Washington State: Tomorrow Western District Judge Thomas Zilly will consider the constitutionality of RCW…
Update on United States v. Cotterman, Ninth Circuit Case Applying the Border Search Exception to Computers
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…
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