Is the government trying to make a mountain out of a molehill? From EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers asked a federal appeals court Thursday to block the government’s attempt to wrongly expand federal computer crime law, turning misdemeanor charges into felonies. In an amicus brief filed…
Category: Court
W.D.Tex. clarifies USMJs’ position on cell phone tracking orders, summarizing all the case law
Oops — I missed this one on FourthAmendment.com the other day: A Magistrate Judge of the Western District of Texas issues an opinion summarizing five years of case law to guide applications for cellular site location information (“CSLI”). In re United States for an Order: Authorizing the Use of a Pen Register and Trap and…
Iowa man gets probation in campground camera case
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports than an Iowa man has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to eight counts of privacy invasion for putting a video camera in a women’s restroom at the Kendallville Campground. The camera produced a live feed, and no photographs or recordings were reportedly found. So any woman who used…
Discovery Rule for Libel Doesn’t Apply to Blogs, Says Federal Judge
Shannon P. Duffy writes: Aviation lawyer and seasoned pilot Arthur Alan Wolk knows quite a bit about the stratosphere and the troposphere, but he may have learned something new this week about the blogosphere when a federal judge tossed out his libel suit against the bloggers at Overlawyered.com. As U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin…