Rachel McAthy writes: Stevie Loughrey is a solicitor at law firm Carter-Ruck, which specialises in privacy, slander and defamation, as well as other areas of media, entertainment and international law. The injunctions granted to Colin Montgomerie and three England footballers in recent weeks have been greeted with the now familiar wailing and gnashing of teeth by…
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NY Post ordered to disclose source of allegedly defamatory info
The New York Public Personnel Law blog reports that a sidebar to a New York Post story, “Bored of Ed. in Rubber Rooms,” named a NYC teacher and said that he had been charged with sexual misconduct. The employee had not been charged with sexual misconduct, however, and the paper published a retraction, but the…
Article: The Timely Demise of the Fourth Amendment Third Party Doctrine
Stephen E. Henderson of the Widener University School of Law has an article in a forthcoming issue of the Iowa Law Review, The Timely Demise of the Fourth Amendment Third Party Doctrine. Here’s the abstract: In what may be a slightly premature obituary, in this response to a forthcoming paper by Matthew Tokson I argue…
Article: The Case for Stewart Over Harlan on 24/7 Physical Surveillance
Afsheen John Radsan of the William Mitchell College of Law has an article in the Texas Law Review, (Vol. 88, No. 7, 2010), “The Case for Stewart Over Harlan on 24/7 Physical Surveillance.” Here’s the abstract: This Article explains why the government’s physical surveillance can reach a point in terms of duration and intensity that…