Here’s another example of where a privacy violation can cause emotional harm and distress. What a court will do with this, I have no idea, but see what you think. Ameet Sachdev reports: Dayanara Fernandez of Los Angeles says that when she walked into her room at the Hyatt in Deerfield this summer, she was…
Category: Court
WA: ‘Robo-call’ law in limbo after lawsuit fails
Mike Carter reports on a lawsuit filed by a man who got annoyed with Talbots (the women’s clothing chain) for their automated sales call. He sued them for allegedly violating the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and the Washington Automatic Dialing and Answering Devices Act (WADAD). The case was dismissed because the judge ruled that…
Meta-data subject to public records law
Gene Johnson of The Associated Press reports: Metadata associated with electronic documents — such as the “to” and “from” fields in e-mails — is a public record subject to disclosure, Washington’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The 5-4 ruling concerned a Shoreline resident’s request under the Public Records Act for an e-mail that had been sent…
Article: A Fourth Amendment for the Poor Alone: Subconstitutional Status and the Myth of the Inviolate Home
Jordan C. Budd of the University of New Hampshire School of Law has an article in the Indiana Law Journal (Vol. 85, No. 2, 2010). Here’s the abstract: For much of our nation’s history, the poor have faced pervasive discrimination in the exercise of fundamental rights. Nowhere has the impairment been more severe than in…