I posted this to PHIprivacy.net, but since it also involves a workplace situation, thought I’d post it here too: Curt Varone writes: Fire Lieutenant Shawn Baptist was fired last year from the Zephyrhills, Florida Fire Department after he allegedly failed a random drug test on February 23, 2009. He is challenging the termination as well…
Category: Court
Gruesome death photos are at the forefront of an Internet privacy battle
Christopher Goffard reports: Three weeks after his 18-year-old daughter sped away in his Porsche and swerved to her death in Lake Forest, Christos Catsouras understood why he had not been allowed to see her body. Photographs of the Halloween 2006 crash, taken and leaked by the California Highway Patrol, were proliferating on the Internet. The…
Gizmodo iPhone Warrant Affidavit Released, Impropriety of Search Confirmed
Matt Zimmerman of EFF provides a legal analysis of the affidavit in the Gizmodo/iPhone case. The affidavit was unsealed yesterday, as reported here previously. Today, San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Clifford Cretan ordered the release of the previously-sealed warrant affidavit that led to the search of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s house. As expected, the…
Court says students can sue over strip search
Dan Sewell reports: A federal appeals panel ruled Friday staffers at an Pike County vocational school can be sued by high school nursing students who were strip-searched after a reported theft. The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected immunity for the school officials, standing by an earlier conclusion that the…