Lior Strahilevitz of the University of Chicago Law School has an article in the University of Chicago Law Review (Vol. 77, pp. 1239, 2010), “Pseudonymous Litigation.” Here’s the abstract: We presently lack a good theory for when we should permit parties to litigate using a pseudonym, and American and European legal systems differ sharply on…
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D.C. Circuit Holds that Month-Long Police GPS Monitoring Triggers Fourth Amendment
Law Professor Sherry F. CKolb writes: Last month, in United States v. Maynard, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the Fourth Amendment “reasonable search” requirement applies to police when they track the movements of a person’s car via an attached GPS device. In so holding, the D.C. Circuit joined a growing…
Border guard charged with forcing women into ‘humiliating’ strip searches
Kelly Sinoski reports: A border guard allegedly used the threat of detention or a criminal record to force four young women to “illegal, humiliating strip searches,” in which he touched some of their breasts and private parts, a B.C. Supreme Court jury in New Westminster heard Monday. Crown counsel Christina Godlewska said Daniel Greenhalgh was…
EFF: Revised Opinion in Privacy Case Blurs Clear Limits to Digital Search and Seizure
Lee Tien of EFF comments on the recent Ninth Circuit revised opinion in United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing (the BALCO decision). The general public will remember the case as the one in which the government swooped in and grabbed everything that wasn’t nailed done in searching for evidence that 10 major league baseball players…