CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby reports: Sarah Palin and her husband Todd will testify in the federal case against a Tennessee man who allegedly accessed Palin’s private e-mail account during the 2008 presidential race, Palin’s attorney told CNN Thursday. “Governor and Mr. Palin have been asked by the U.S. Department of Justice to testify in…
Category: Court
Customer “Upskirted” at Store Loses Privacy Lawsuit
Matthew Heller writes: A customer at a T.J. Maxx store in upstate New York has lost her lawsuit against the retailer for allowing a man to take photos up her skirt by using her as “human bait” in a sting operation. Security workers did not warn customers that they were surreptitiously videotaping the man as…
Mr Justice Eady: ‘The law of privacy is a new creature requiring a terminology and language of its own’
Judith Townend reports: An absence of existing privacy law in England has led to Parliament giving the courts a “free hand” to apply Strasbourg jurisdiction directly, the High Court judge Mr Justice Eady said last night. “There were few established domestic rules to get in the way,” he said. Marking the launch of City University…
The SeaWorld Killer Whale Death Video and the Right to Privacy
Yesterday, I reported on a lawsuit filed by the family of the SeaWorld trainer who was tragically killed during a show. The family does not want video taken of the incident released to the public, but Florida’s open records law would seem to require that they be made available. Today, Dan Solove blogs about the…