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,…
Category: Court
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…
Judge tosses out privacy claim against Michael Moore over ‘Sicko’ segment
Mike Carter reports on the first anti-SLAPP ruling in Washington: A federal magistrate judge in Tacoma has thrown out key claims in a lawsuit filed against controversial filmmaker Michael Moore and his Academy Award-nominated documentary “Sicko,” the first use of a state law that bars lawsuits targeting conduct associated with free speech and the First…