Woohoo! It was a close call, but in a 5-4 vote, the D.C. Circuit denied the DOJ’s request for an en banc review of the decision to overturn Antoine Jones’ life sentence in a case where law enforcement had used GPS surveillance on Jones for 4 weeks without a warrant. Jones’ case had been consolidated…
Category: Court
Pat-Downs at Airports Prompt Complaints
Susan Stellin reports on complaints over the more invasive pat-downs air travellers are being subjected to: In the three weeks since the Transportation Security Administration began more aggressive pat-downs of passengers at airport security checkpoints, traveler complaints have poured in. Some offer graphic accounts of genital contact, others tell of agents gawking or making inappropriate comments, and many express…
Lawyer gets jail time in Dead Sea Scrolls harassment case
Jennifer Peltz of AP reports: A New York lawyer was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail for an ultramodern crime that was all about antiquity: using online aliases to harass people in an academic debate about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Raphael Golb, 50, was sentenced on identity theft and other charges in a rare…
IL: State constitution recognizes privacy in bank records
Illinois holds that there is a state constitutional right of privacy in bank records, deciding that the state constitution is not interpreted in lockstep with the Fourth Amendment… Read more about the decision in People v. Nesbitt over on FourthAmendment.com