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…
Category: Court
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…
Free speech vs. family privacy – murky waters
Charlie Butts writes: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case lodged against Fred Phelps and other members of his church over protests at military funerals. Phelps’ protesters suggest soldiers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan because God is punishing America for tolerance of the homosexual lifestyle. The high court will hear…