David Kravets writes: Wikipedia is under a censorship attack by a convicted German murderer invoking his country’s privacy laws in a bid to remove references to him killing Bavarian actor Walter Sedlmayr in 1990. Lawyers for Wolfgang Werle, of Erding Germany, sent Wikipedia a cease-and-desist letter (.pdf) demanding the free encyclopedia remove Werle’s name from…
Category: Court
WI: State Supreme Court hears teacher e-mail case
Adam Wise reports: After more than two years of debate, the fate of an open records request involving Wisconsin Rapids teacher e-mail messages now rests with the state’s highest court. Seven State Supreme Court justices spent more than an hour Tuesday morning questioning an attorney representing the Wisconsin Rapids School District and one representing five…
EPIC sues Homeland Security for info about digital strip search devices
EPIC filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s failure to make public details about the agency’s Whole Body Imaging program. The devices capture detailed naked images of air travelers in the United States. After the agency announced that the body scanners would become the primary screening device in US…
Jennifer Lopez “Sex” Tape Temporarily Shelved
Jeremy Tanner reports: Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant sided with singer Jennifer Lopez Tuesday after granting a restraining order that will prevent ex-husband Ojani Noa from distributing a sex tape filmed during their 1997 honeymoon. The restraining order is in effect pending the outcome of a hearing scheduled on Dec. 1….