Tom Breen of Associated Press reports: New airport security procedures that have prompted complaints around the country amount to a violation of constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday by a Durham lawyer. Jonathan Blitz filed a complaint in Raleigh federal court against the Transportation Security Administration on behalf of himself and his family….
Category: Court
On the Admissibility of FISA-Derived Evidence in Criminal Prosecutions
Robert Chesney writes: United States v. Kashmiri, a recent decision by a district judge in Illinois, provides a nice illustration of the process by which defendants in criminal cases may object to the admission of evidence derived from Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants, and the significant obstacles such objections face. Unfortunately I do not have a pdf…
Tel-Aviv District Court Finds No “Right to Forget”
Boris Segalis writes: As reported by Dan Or-Hof, Manager of the Information Technology, Internet and Copyright group at the Israeli law firm of Pearl Cohen Zedek & Latzer, in a first of its kind decision, the Tel-Aviv district court ruled on November 30, 2010 that a subscriber of cellular services does not have a general…
Students Say Schools’ Use of Mace Creates a ‘Police State’ in Birmingham
Tracey Dalzell Walsh of Courthouse News reports: In a federal class action, students and parents accuse the Birmingham Board of Education and Police Chief of “creating a police state within the city’s public high schools” by allowing police officers to “brutalize” students “with chemical weapons,” including Mace, as a way to “enforce basic school discipline.”…