Ameet Sachdev reports: A Virginia advocacy group that has been active in judicial elections in other states has declared its interest in Illinois’ coming elections. But it has decided to remain silent in Illinois for now. The Center for Individual Freedom, a nonprofit group, stated its intentions to enter Illinois politics in a grandiose way…
Category: Court
Fourth Amendment Stunner: Judge Rules That Cell-Site Data Protected By Fourth Amendment Warrant Requirement
While some of us were dancing a little jig and yelping “whoop-de-doo!” over a magistrate judge’s decision in New York, Orin Kerr was less than thrilled: A few federal court opinions have been making a big public splash recently by taking surprising positions on how the Fourth Amendment applies to location surveillance. The latest…
Department of Homeland Security Sued Over Secret Traveller Files
Matt Smith reports: San Francisco travel writer Edward Hasbrouck has sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over what he says is the agency’s refusal to give a complete accounting of secret files detailing his numerous border crossings around the world. “This is not something I’m doing lightly, or that I’m doing every day, or…
Defendant, ISP: DC court lacks jurisdiction over 14,000 P2P users
Nate Anderson discusses two strategies being used (so far unsuccessfully) by defendants in P2P lawsuits: joinder and jurisdiction: Last week, one of the 14,000 defendants in the US Copyright Group’s anti-P2P litigation campaign filed a document with the DC District Court, hoping to quash the subpoena that would reveal his name and address. The letter…