The Rutherford Institute has filed a lawsuit on behalf of three airport passengers subjected to new, enhanced security screenings. […] The plaintiffs include the mother of a 12-year-old girl who was forced to undergo a “virtual strip search” without parental consent; a man with an enlarged testicle due to a youth injury, who was subjected…
Category: Court
Air Passengers Set for Takeoff in Body Scanner Suits?
Matthew Heller discusses lawsuits filed against TSA and some previous court decisions that might come into play: Civil-rights lawsuits over the use of “nude body scanners” and enhanced pat-downs may present the stiffest challenge yet to the “broad authority” of the government to search travelers at airport security checkpoints. Four airline passengers and two pilots…
Another massive porn Bittorrent copyright lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois
Evan Brown writes: Another porn company has filed a copyright lawsuit against hundreds of anonymous John Doe defendants who allegedly used the Bittorrent protocol to trade plaintiffs’ copyrighted movies. So ISPs around the country should expect another wave of subpoenas sent to unmask these unknown file sharers. The works allegedly infringed in this case include…
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Over YouPorn History Sniffing
Kashmir Hill’s recent column on history sniffing not only got a response from YouPorn, but it seems to have resulted in YouPorn being sued when users became aware of what had been occurring. She writes: Calling all YouPorn watchers! Two California men, David Pitner and Jared Reagan, have filed a class-action lawsuit over the site’s…