Venkat Balasubramani discusses a recent decision in a case previously mentioned on this blog: J.W. v. Desoto County School Dist., et al., 09-cv-00155-MPM-DAS (N.D. Miss.; Nov. 1, 2010) The Virginia Attorney General set off a small firestorm (e.g., “Should Teachers Be Searching Cell Phones?“) when he issued an opinion to the effect that principals and teachers…
Category: Court
UK Case Law: XJA v News Group: another case on anonymity
On 3 December Mrs Justice Sharp handed down judgment in the case of XJA v News Group [2010] EWHC 3174 (QB)). This was a privacy action, where an interim holding injunction was extended by consent until trial or further order. The claimant had made an application on short notice against the defendant, News Group Newspapers for…
Rutherford Institute files second suit over TSA procedures
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…
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…