Mary Niederberger reports: Forward Township Supervisor Thomas DeRosa has won a court victory in the action that he filed in November to uncover the identities of people who posted comments on an online bulletin board that he said defamed him. On Wednesday, the ACLU, which had intervened in the case, turned over the Internet Protocol…
Category: Court
CT: Student strip-search suit settled with payout; 4 receive $27,500 each for incident at Ansonia alternative education site
Lauren Garrison reports: A lawsuit filed by four former students in the alternative education program who claimed they were strip searched by teachers looking for missing money has been settled, according to the students’ attorney. Attorney Robert Berke of Bridgeport said Wednesday that each of the students, who have all either graduated or left the…
No “Intrusion Upon Seclusion” Tort When Person is Videotaped at a Publicly Visible Religious Service
Eugene Volokh points us to a decision in Tagouma v. Investigative Consultant Servs., Inc. While some individuals might expect a certain level of privacy in a house of worship, the specific intrusion here concerned observation of [Appellant] that any member of the non-trespassing public could have observed simply by driving up to the building in…
Plaintiff who challenged FBI’s national security letters reveals concerns
Ellen Nakashima reports: For six years, Nicholas Merrill has lived in a surreal world of half-truths, where he could not tell even his fiancee, his closest friends or his mother that he is “John Doe” — the man who filed the first-ever court challenge to the FBI’s ability to obtain personal data on Americans without…