From the ACLU, background on the lawsuit they filed this morning in federal court in New York to stop suspicionless border searches of electronic devices: The American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defense Layers (NACDL) today filed a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s…
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New lawsuit to challenge laptop searches at U.S. border
Ellen Nakashima reports: Criminal defense lawyers, press photographers and a university student are challenging the Obama administration’s search policy permitting officers at U.S. borders to detain travelers’ laptop computers and examine their contents even without suspecting the traveler of wrongdoing. In a federal lawsuit to be filed Tuesday in the Eastern District of New York,…
Federal appeals court allows habeas challenge to deportation despite REAL ID Act
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a decision Friday allowing two people to file habeas corpus petitions against removal orders from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) despite provisions of the REAL ID Act removing jurisdiction from federal courts to hear such claims when they are late. Read more on JURIST.
Does Michael Moore’s victory weaken our privacy rights?
I was just mulling over the possible implications of the news item I posted earlier from the Seattle Times that privacy claims against Michael Moore’s use of someone’s likeness and voice without their permission had been thrown out by the court under Washington’s new anti-SLAPP law. Although I think most readers of PogoWasRight.org are likely…