The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday expanded the ability of police to jail suspects for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) by allowing arrests to be made solely based on third-party tips. The ruling was handed down two weeks after the same court had relaxed DUI arrest rules so that motorists sleeping off…
Category: Court
Cn: Man charged for reading colleague’s emails
Jane Chen reports: A Shanghai man is charged with breaching other people’s mail rights for stealing a former colleague’s email account and reading and keeping more than 1,000 emails over six years. A vice chief general manager surnamed Ma learned last July that the company’s crucial business information was for sale, today’s Oriental Morning Post…
Naturalized Iranian Says U.S. Sent Her Personal Info to Russia and Iran
Karina Brown reports: A woman who lived at the meeting place for the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, which the Bush administration accused of association with Osama bin Laden, says the Department of Justice endangered her and her family by giving copies of her computer hard drives to Russian spies with known ties to the Iranian government….
U.S. Supreme Court: No right to privacy for signing petitions
Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog reports on the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of those who wanted to keep their signatures on a petition shielded from public scrutiny: By a broad eight-to-one majority in an opinion by the Chief Justice, the Supreme Court today held in Doe v. Reed that signatories of referendum petitions generally…