The trial of four Google executives has begun in Milan with an engineer from the search giant giving evidence. The executives are accused of breaking Italian law in allowing a video of a teenager with Down’s Syndrome to be posted online. The case, subject to lengthy delays, could have major ramifications for content providers around…
Category: Court
Cops Can’t Convert Car Into Tracking Device Without Court’s OK
Jennifer Granick of EFF has a commentary on a recent decision out of Massachusetts discussed here previously. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts recently held that officers may not place GPS tracking devices on cars without first getting a warrant. The case, Commonwealth v. Connolly, was decided under the state corollary to the Fourth Amendment, and…
From skanks to douchebags: student internet speech suit back in court
Jim Moore reports: Avery Doninger will soon return to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with the right of students across the country to speak their minds in blogs and text messages at stake. Once a 16-year-old high school junior who referred to school administrators as “douchebags” in an online blog post protesting the…
Football and Federalism: A Case Centers on NFL Drug Testing
Michael C. Dorf, Professor of Law at Cornell University, had a column on FindLaw this week: Last week, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dealt an apparent blow to the National Football League’s drug-testing policy. In Williams v. NFL, the court held that league’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA)…