Elizabeth Banicki reports: A Texas lottery winner sued the state to keep his identity private, for the privacy and safety of his family. After the Lottery Commission claimed that it had received a freedom of information request about the winner, Attorney General Greg Abbott ruled that information about John Doe should be released without redactions….
Category: Court
California appeals court hears case on student drug tests
Denny Walsh reports: In the first case of its kind in California, three appeals court justices in Sacramento did not appear receptive Monday to mandatory random drug testing of non-athlete high school students who participate in competitive extracurricular activities. A Superior Court judge last year ordered a halt to enforcement of the expanded drug-testing policy…
Split Ruling on Confidentiality
Scott Jaschik reports: A federal judge ruled last week that education researchers at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona can’t be forced to release records that identify individual teachers they interviewed for their studies, which have become part of a court battle. But the judge ruled that the names of schools and districts…
Two Iranians file lawsuit in US against Nokia Siemens
Cyrus Farivar reports on a lawsuit that alleges that by providing the Iranian government with the means to surveill cell phone users, Nokia Siemens was responsible for the arrest and torture of dissidents. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. federal court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Farivar reports: “These intercepting devices were used in…