Shocking allegations of spying levied against pair of 18-year-old students exploded on the Rutgers University campus on Tuesday. Dharun Ravi of Plainsboro and Molly W. Wei of Princeton were charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly secretly placing a camera in another student’s dorm room and transmitting a sexual encounter over the Internet. Middlesex County…
Category: Court
Jurors award $100k to innocent ID theft victim held overnight in jail
Earlier this month I posted a link to a story about a woman who sued Seminole County for keeping her locked up in jail overnight and putting her through a strip search even after they knew she was the victim of ID theft. At the time, I was somewhat offended by the County’s defense attorney’s…
Article: Public Interest(s) and Fourth Amendment Enforcement
Alexander A. Reinert of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, has an article in the Illinois Law Review, Issue 2010:5 (September 2010). Here’s the abstract: Fourth Amendment events generate substantial controversy among the public and in the legal community. Yet there is orthodoxy to Fourth Amendment thinking, reflected in the near universal…
ECPA Reform and Video Privacy–An Overlooked Issue in the Debate
Andy Serwin writes: … There are a number of federal and state laws regarding video and cable privacy, but ECPA also is implicated in some cases, which should be considered as ECPA reform is discussed. One of the numerous issues inViacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., 253 F.R.D. 256, 87 U.S.P. Q.2d 1170 (S.D.N.Y. 2008), related to…