It’s nice to see the courts not making excuses for warrantless searches. I suspect Montana law enforcement will be more careful about warrants after having two cases tossed in relatively short order. Sanjay Talwani reports: For the second time in a month, the Montana Supreme Court has thrown out a conviction because prosecutors used recordings…
Category: Court
Why did DOJ argue that consumers read and understand privacy policies? Are they ignorant or just unethical?
Over on Slight Paranoia, Chis Soghoian takes the DOJ out to the woodshed for its brief in In the Matter of the Application of the United States of America for an Order Authorizing the Use Of a Pen Register and Trap and Trace Device and Authorizing Release of Subscriber and Other Information. In that brief,…
Log Cabin Republicans ask SCOTUS to lift stay that keeps DADT in effect
Lyle Denniston reports: A gay rights group, renewing its challenge to the military’s “don’t ask/don’t tell” policy against gays in the services, asked the Supreme Court on Friday afternoon to block that ban as the test case over its constitutionality moves on in lower federal courts. Specifically, the Log Cabin Republicans urged the Court to…
UK: JIH v News Group – Removing Anonymity in Privacy Cases
Inforrm’s Blog has more about a case previously noted on this site. Mark Thomson writes: On 5 November 2010 Mr Justice Tugendhat handed down judgment in JIH v News Group Newspapers ([2010] EWHC 2818 (QB)) another privacy injunction case about anonymity. Following his recent decision in Gray v UVW ([2010] EWHC 2367 (QB)), he again decided that,…