Ernesto writes: The verdict against three people associated with The Pirate Bay just been announced. The Swedish Appeal Court found Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström guilty of “contributory copyright infringement” and handed down prison sentences ranging from 4 to 10 months plus damages of more than $6.5 million in total. Read more on…
Category: Court
The Supreme Court on School Interrogations and Parental (Dis)empowerment
Craig Livermore writes: The Supreme Court has in the past several weeks granted certiorari in two cases involving the rights of juveniles in police interrogations in the school setting. In Greene v. Camreta, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the interrogation of a juvenile by police authorities in the school setting in the absence…
Divided Supreme Court puts limit on privacy expectations
Janice Tibbetts reports on a Canadian court ruling mentioned previously on this blog: The right to privacy in one’s home is not absolute, the Supreme Court of Canada said Wednesday in a ruling that allowed police to conscript a Calgary power company to collect details of a customer’s electricity use to determine if he was…
MS Phone Spoofing Law Called Unconstitutional
Tracey Dalzell Walsh reports: Two telecom companies say Mississippi enacted an unconstitutional law that prohibits electronic “spoofing”: using devices that disguise the calling phone number, so caller ID systems cannot tell where the call is coming from. […] The plaintiffs say that only Congress or the Federal Communications Commission have the power to impose such…