Attorney Chris Sheean comments on Gaos v. Google, a class action lawsuit that seems to have been inspired by a complaint Chris Soghoian had filed with the FTC, mentioned previously on this blog. The background on the lawsuit, as provided by Sheean: […] In the Gaos suit, Google is alleged to have violated the privacy rights…
Category: Court
Court gives school personnel a free pass for searching student’s cell phone
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…
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…