Courthouse News reports on the latest legal development in a lawsuit that started with a privacy breach in 2001 involving employees at the Federal Medical Center in Kentucky: Staff members at a prison hospital in Kentucky might be entitled to more than $1,000 each for the breach of privacy that occurred when a federal investigator…
Category: Court
SCOTUS to hear NASA/JPL background check dispute Tuesday
Nora Swanson reports on a case that PogoWasRight.org has been covering since it started in 2007 (archive, recent): The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments from NASA contractors who claim the government has violated their privacy with intrusive background checks. The case involves 28 California Institute of Technology scientists, under contract with NASA at…
UK judge: Van Morrison’s privacy trumps media coverage
UTV reports: Van Morrison has secured a High Court injunction banning the publication of a newspaper article about his private life. A judge also granted the Belfast-born singer’s application to stop the News of the World from printing photographs of him, his home and of businesswoman Gigi Lee. But Mr Justice Gillen declined to impose…
OnStar, Rental Vehicles and the 4th Amendment
Susan Brenner wrote a very interesting post about whether law enforcement obtaining OnStar data constitutes a “search” and implicates Fourth Amendment protections: I’ve done a couple of posts about cases in which law enforcement officers’ use of OnStar listen in on conversations occurring in a vehicle violates the 4thAmendment. As I explained in the post I did…