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…
Category: Court
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…
Were ‘governmentwatcher’ posts made by same user as ‘lawmiss’?
In for a penny, in for a pound? As if it was not enough to reveal the possible identity of an anonymous commenter on their web site, the Plain Dealer now goes further and attempts to link Judge Strickland Saffold to a second anonymous commenter’s account. James F. McCarty reports: […] Comments under the two…