Auburn Hutton reports from Nevada: A local sixth grade teacher, is caught on video, for allegedly placing a small camera in the staff bathroom at Jesse Hall Elementary School. 43-year-old Terry Rauh, is in jail on ten counts of “Capturing an Image of a Private Area,” after one of his coworkers found the recorder earlier…
Category: Court
Administrator agrees to surrender computer in Web cam case
John P. Martin brings us the latest development in the lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District for activating a webcam to record a student in the student’s home: The Lower Merion School District administrator who had the ability to activate the Web cams on students’ laptops agreed Friday to let investigators inspect her personal…
Lawsuit demands Vatican name priests accused of sex abuse
Alan Duke reports: An Illinois man is suing the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI for allegedly covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Catholic school in Wisconsin. The lawsuit demands the Vatican release the names of thousands of Catholic priests that the suit says have “credible allegations of sexual misconduct” against them. […]…
Fourth Amendment Remedial Equilibration: A Comment on Herring v. United States and Pearson v. Callahan
Following the publication of Orin Kerr’s article, Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach (mentioned here), Orin and defense attorney Scott Greenfield had an interesting exchange on Scott’s blog as to whether to try to apply brick and mortar Fourth Amendment law to the Internet and new technology or to start all…