Greg Bluestein of The Associated Press reports that there is a First Amendment battle over whether the plaintiffs in a civil suit against Girls Gone Wild producer Joe Francis should be able to protect their names from publication. Not surprisingly, the press is arguing for the discretion as to whether their publish their names, but…
Category: Court
Memphis pilot files lawsuit over airport body-scans
Michael Roberts, the pilot who refused to go through a full body scanner, is suing the TSA. Jamel Major reports: A Mid-South pilot who refused a full-body scan at Memphis International Airport is suing the TSA. Michael Roberts and attorneys at the Rutherford Institute are suing the federal government over air passenger screening procedures. “We’re…
Scripps Paper Accused of Privacy Invasion
Tish Kraft reports: Against the advice of its own attorney, the Redding Record Searchlight, a Scripps newspaper, published the name of a 7-year-old boy who was near death when sheriff’s deputies rescued him from a week of torture, though it knew the boy’s name was confidential and should have been protected, the boy’s guardian at…
Court orders LimeWire to cease file-sharing business
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: In a major victory for the music industry, a New York federal judge has ordered embattled P2P software maker LimeWire to immediately and permanently stop distributing and supporting its file-sharing software. In a 17-page injunction (PDF document) issued on Tuesday, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New…