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…
Category: Court
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…
TeliaSonera appeals anti-piracy ruling
Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera has announced its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) an anti-piracy law ruling ordering the firm to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website. […] The Appeals Court (Hovrätten) on Monday upheld a lower court’s ruling forcing TeliaSonera to hand over to…