Anthony Dowsley and Ruth Lamperd report the latest in a scandal that seems to have started when a teenage girl obtained nude and semi-nude pictures of members of the St Kilda football team. A member of the team has stated that he took the pictures and that they were obtained from his laptop without his…
Category: Court
Use of Night-Vision Goggles Not A Fourth Amendment Search
Orin Kerr writes: So holds a state court in People v. Lieng, 2010 Cal. App. LEXIS 2106 (1st Dist. December 14, 2010), distinguishing the infrared thermal imaging device used in Kyllo v. United States: Kyllo is inapplicable to this case. First, night goggles are commonly used by the military, police and border patrol, and they are available…
TSA’s random opening of luggage to swab for explosives was reasonable, and it found child pornography
FourthAmendment.com provides excerpts from a recent Florida ruling in Higerd v. State concerning TSA “administrative searches” of luggage where there is no suspicion (i.e., a “random” search). John Wesley Hall Jr. writes: TSA random search of a suitcase at Pensacola airport for swabbing of exterior and contents for explosives resulted in a “plain view” of child…
Parents of Rutgers student intend to sue
The Associated Press reports that Tyler Clementi’s parents will be suing Rutgers. In a case that has drawn national attention about privacy violations and privacy harm via the internet, Clementi committed suicide in September after his roommate allegedly used a web cam to observe him in a sexual encounter with a man and reportedly tried…