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…
Category: Court
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…
NY lawyer convicted in Dead Sea Scrolls case
The Associated Press reports: A scholar’s son was convicted Thursday of using online aliases to harass and discredit his father’s detractors in a heated academic debate over the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Manhattan jury found Raphael Golb guilty of about 30 counts against him, including identity theft, forgery and harassment. He was…