A Paris court fined the France 24 news channel on Friday for reporting rumours that first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was having an affair with a French pop singer. Judges ordered the publicly-funded television channel to pay 3,000 euros to the singer in question, Benjamin Biolay, after ruling that the coverage violated his privacy. Biolay had…
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FL: Deputy Arrested Over Data Access
Shoshana Walter reports: Detectives say key members of a massive drug trafficking operation used a Polk County sheriff’s deputy to look up vehicle tag information for a car they suspected belonged to an undercover detective. The 16-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Office, who most recently was assigned to patrol the Winter Haven area, has joined…
City of Ontario v. Quon: The Rights of Other Parties to the Communication
Dan Solove has some additional comments on Ontario v. Quon, in response to comments by Orin Kerr: I blogged about City of Ontario v. Quon a few days ago, and I want to raise another important issue in the case, one my colleague Orin Kerr has astutely pointed out. The case is on appeal to…
Think Tank Sues to Get Drug Test Results of Ferry Crew Involved in Collision
Ed Friedrich reports from Washington: The Evergreen Freedom Foundation is suing the state Department of Transportation to get the results of drug and alcohol tests that a ferry crew took after their boat hit Seattle’s Colman Dock last summer. The libertarian think tank based in Olympia believes the public should be able to view documents…