Barbara Boyer reports: A New Jersey man who was strip-searched twice and spent six days in jail because of an administrative error wants a federal panel to force prison officials in Burlington and Essex Counties to change practices and pay for their mistakes. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third…
Category: Court
Webcamgate: Laptops took thousands of images – lawyer
John P. Martin reports: The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district. More than…
Judge Suing Newspaper for Breach of Web Privacy Agreement Over Being Outed as Author of Anonymous Comments
Eugene Volokh chimes in on the case where a judge is suing the Cleveland Plain Dealer, previously covered here.
The Obama DOJ’s warrantless demands for e-mails
Glenn Greenwald chimes in on the Yahoo! case discussed on this site previously. You can read his commentary here. Glenn writes, in part: If nothing else, consider the implications of allowing the U.S. Government to obtain and read emails simply by a vague showing of “relevance” to a criminal investigation, all without (a) any demonstration…