Sometimes I get a mental image of someone gritting their teeth while they’re typing. John Wesley Hall Jr. writes: In a GPS case, where all the right things were argued, Ohio’s 12th District Court of Appeals rejects NY’s Weaver (2009) and Washington’s Jackson (2003) because the Ohio Supreme Court says that the state constitution is to be…
Category: Court
Harvard Law Students Sue TSA
Jenny Paul and Joey Seiler report: Two Harvard Law students have filed a federal lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration that claims the use of “nude body scanners” and new enhanced pat-down techniques at airport security checkpoints are unconstitutional. Jeffrey Redfern ’12 and Anant Pradhan ’12 filed the lawsuit Monday in the District Court of…
Facebook, Zynga And Data Broker Rapleaf Named In Privacy Lawsuit
Wendy Davis reports: A Virginia resident has sued data broker Rapleaf, as well as Facebook and game developer Zynga, for violating users’ privacy by allegedly sending their names and other personal information to advertisers. “Defendants inappropriately and unlawfully transmitted sensitive personally identifiable information, including Facebook User IDs … and real names, to third parties,” Barbara…
Article: Fourth Amendment Pragmatism
Daniel Solove writes that he has uploaded the final published version of his article, Fourth Amendment Pragmatism, 51 B.C. L. Rev. 1511 (2010) to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: In this essay, Professor Solove argues that the Fourth Amendment reasonable expectation of privacy test should be abandoned. Instead of engaging in a fruitless game of determining whether…