Maria Dinzeo reports: The Center for Constitutional Rights has asked a federal judge to order the government to destroy or quarantine all surveillance records from the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program. “It requires little imagination to see the continued risk of harm posed by the profoundly intrusive surveillance the NSA carried out with abandon…
Category: Court
Not all aboard on T perv
Richard Weir reports: It is by no stretch creepy, even downright offensive. Perhaps morally wrong. But when does snapping a picture of a woman’s cleavage on a subway cross the pervert-perp line and become criminal? The recent case of a man wanted by Transit Police for such alleged lewd and lascivious conduct has stirred a…
‘McSteamy’ Sex Tape Suit Cools off With Settlement
Matthew Heller reports: Acting couple Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart have dropped a $1 million lawsuit against Gawker.com for publishing a videotape featuring them in a nude threesome with a friend after the gossip website agreed to take down the much-viewed posting. Gawker got plenty of mileage from the tape after posting it in August…
NC: Judge gives online commenters First Amendment protection
Kevin Ellis reports: Attorneys for Michael Mead had sought to force The Gaston Gazette to reveal information that could have been used to help reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter on the news organization’s website. But Superior Court Judge Calvin Murphy ruled Tuesday to nullify the request, siding with The Gaston Gazette that such…