Robert McMillan reports that we may not have heard the last of the case involving a Quebec spammer: Facebook isn’t finished with a Canadian who was ordered to pay the company CDN$1 billion last week for spamming. Although the Sept. 28 ruling by Quebec Superior Court closed Facebook’s civil case against Montreal’s Adam Guerbuez, the…
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Argument recap in Snyder v. Phelps: Does emotion win?
Lyle Denniston has another insightful analysis and commentary on SCOTUSBlog over today’s oral arguments: When the Supreme Court meets in private Friday to discuss Snyder v. Phelps, a profound question will hang over the discussion: Can we put aside our emotional reaction? If the answer, implicit or otherwise, is no, then the case is over, and…
State Dept. employee indicted for snooping in celebs’ passport files
What — yet ANOTHER case of a State Department employee snooping in passport records? I’m glad there’s an indictment, but what about better prevention? Kieran Crowley reports: A US State Department clerk has been indicted for using her government computer to gather personal information on more than a hundred celebrities and their families — including…
High court struggles with funeral protest case (update 1)
Mark Sherman of The Associated Press provides early coverage from today’s Supreme Court hearing pitting free speech and freedom of religion claims of the Westboro Baptist Church against claims of right to privacy by the grieving family of a slain Marine in the Snyder v. Phelps case: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the question is…