A suspected stalker has been arrested for clicking a woman on his cellphone at the Netaji Bhawan Metro station, setting the stage for a test case dealing with privacy in public places in the age of ubiquitous digital gadgets. The accused, a 35-year-old mechanic living near Park Street, has been charged with “insulting the modesty…
Category: Court
Property as Privacy: The Old Supreme Court Did It Better
Alex Harris writes: Up until I began doing my reading for this fall’s Criminal Procedure: Investigation course, I largely bought the heroic Warren Court story of privacy and the Fourth Amendment. The story is simple: The Supreme Court, concerned only with helping businesses through decisions like Lochner, had left people unprotected from warrantless searches and seizures. In decisions like Olmstead v….
BitTorrent John Does Catch a Break as Judge Reignites Jurisdiction Issue
Thomas Mennecke reports: Every single US Copyright lawsuit against nearly 19,000 John Does has been filed in Washington DC. Discovery has been granted in every case, which means the identification process against many of these individuals is taking place as you read this article. Before the USCG can obtain the identifiable information associated with the…
Federal Suit Tests Online Griper’s Right to Use Target’s Name in Web Address
Mary Pat Gallagher writes: A lawsuit filed Tuesday in Trenton, N.J., might provide the chance for the local federal courts to address how far free speech rights go when an online critic uses a trademarked name as the address for a “gripe site.” Dominic Morgan, the plaintiff in Morgan v. Nevyas, 10-cv-4552, seeks a declaratory judgment…