Charlie Savage reports that the Department of Justice is trying to pierce a journalist’s shield: The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The author, James…
Category: Court
Database builder faces web-scraping lawsuit
A US company faces a copyright, trespass and trade secrets lawsuit because it ‘scraped’ the website of a rival on behalf of a client. The case underlines the legal uncertainty surrounding the practice. Website ‘scraping’ is the practice of automatically taking information from a website and can be used to retrieve the contents of entire…
The Internet, The Fourth Amendment, and Technology Neutrality: A Response to Horowitz
Orin Kerr responds to a critique of his technology neutrality approach to the Fourth Amendment: Defense attorney and blogger Rick Horowitz has posted an extended two-part response to my new law review article, Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach, 62 Stan. L. Rev. 1005 (2010). His posts are here: 1. Orin Kerr’s…
Without Scalia, whither anonymity?
Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog has a recap of oral arguments in John Doe No. 1 v. Reed, the case where petition signers want their names kept private: Justice Antonin Scalia, using history, sarcasm and political taunts, laid down a barrage of objections Wednesday to a plea that the Supreme Court create a new constitutional right…