Sean O’Sullivan reports: In what may set a Delaware precedent, a Superior Court judge has gutted a criminal case against a Newark man who was pulled over with 10 pounds of marijuana because police used a GPS tracking device without a warrant to follow him for nearly a month. In court papers, Deputy Attorney General…
Category: Court
Article: Searching for the Fourth Amendment: Looking for Law in All the Wrong Cases
An article by Stanley A. Goldman, Loyola Law School Los Angeles, “Searching for the Fourth Amendment: Looking for Law in All the Wrong Cases,” is available on SSRN. The Abstract: Whether we are speaking of Hudson v. Michigan, Herring v. United States, Arizona v. Gant, Thornton v. United States or even though slightly older Illinois…
Apple Apps Give Information to Advertisers, Suit Says
Joel Rosenblatt reports: Apple Inc. was sued over claims that applications for the company’s iPhone and iPad transmit users’ personal information to advertising networks without customers’ consent. The complaint, which seeks class action, or group, status, was filed on Dec. 23 in federal court in San Jose, California. The suit claims Cupertino, California-based Apple’s iPhones…
MN: Teachers named in cases involving student bullying are now suing about privacy
Dennis Carlson, superintendent of the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota, has been trying to “correct inaccurate statements about students who have committed suicide over the past year.” Mr. Carlson has always publicly stated that school officials did not ignore reports from parents and students about anti-gay bullying, like the kind that led Justin Aaberg to…