Over on Politico, Josh Gerstein writes: President Barack Obama’s administration is escalating a legal showdown which has the Justice Department defending official secrecy and executive power with arguments more associated with former Vice President Dick Cheney than the White House’s newest occupants. On Wednesday afternoon, the Justice Department filed an appeal and a request for…
Category: Court
Appeals court upholds online gambling ban
David Kravets reports: A move to scuttle legislation outlawing online gambling suffered a major setback when a federal appeals court set aside constitutional and other legal challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals brushed aside assertions that the act (.pdf) breached…
ACLU lawsuit says student’s cell phone was illegally searched
John Cox of Network World reports: A middle school honor student who was expelled after authorities searched his cell phone and found evidence of what they claimed were “gang-related activities” now has a lawyer: the American Civil Liberties Union. The Mississippi ACLU this week filed a federal civil rights lawsuit, arguing that the 2008 cell…
Feds ask appeals court to stay drug decision
USA Today has a story by Ronald Blum of the Associated Press reporting that federal prosecutors have asked an appeals court to stay its decision [pdf] that government agents illegally seized the drug testing records and samples of more than 100 major league baseball players (see this post for previous coverage of the decision and…