L. Song Richardson, Associate Professor & Co-Director, Center for Law and Science, DePaul University College of Law, wrote this piece for the Constitution in 2020 conference on The Future of Criminal Justice: My vision for constitutional law in the area of criminal justice in 2020 relates to race, policing and the Fourth Amendment. I envision a…
Category: Court
French court orders Google Inc to pay libel damages: report
A French court has ordered Google Inc to pay 5,000 euros ($6,672) in libel damages to a man who claimed that searches for his name automatically yielded a list of harmful suggestions. The man, whose name was not given, said the suggested terms that came up when typing his name on Google.fr — including the…
Woman sues debt collector for contacting her family via Facebook
Curtis Krueger reports: Melanie Beacham is on Facebook, the social networking site “that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.”Unfortunately for her, those “others” include bill collectors. Beacham, 34, of St. Petersburg, said she already had called her car finance company last summer to let people know she was…
Palin hacker’s verdict stands
Jamie Satterfield reports: A federal judge has shot down a former University of Tennessee student’s bid to have tossed out convictions in the illegal access of Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account during the 2008 presidential election. Although U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips’ ruling, issued Thursday, paves the way for David C. Kernell to be sentenced next…