Daniel Solove writes: The NY Daily News reports on rumors of a potential $750 million divorce settlement proposal in the impending divorce of Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren: Woods hasn’t agreed yet, but if he does he wants total silence from his soon-to-be ex about the collapse of their marriage – forever, according to the…
Category: Court
Justice Stevens and the so-called right to privacy
Erin Miller writes: The following essay by Jamal Greene is part of our thirty-day series on John Paul Stevens. Greene clerked for Justice Stevens during the 2006 Term, and is now a law professor at Columbia University. In the months leading up to his confirmation hearing, news emerged that in 1981, as a fledgling lawyer…
Corbett assailed over Twitter subpoena
Angela Couloumbis and Amy Worden report that Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett’s motivation in trying to unmask two anonymous online critics, bfbarbie and CasablancaPA, might be that he thinks one of them is really someone who was convicted in Pennsylvania’s “bonusgate” political scandal: Kevin Harley, spokesman for the Attorney General’s Office, said the subpoena had…
Ex-student sues Tunkhannock Area, authorities over cell phone seizure
David Singleton reports a follow-up to a Pennsylvania student sexting case that was covered previously on this site when a federal judge chastised a district attorney for threatening to prosecute the students. The injunction was later upheld by the Third Circuit. A former Tunkhannock Area High School student accused school and Wyoming County law enforcement…