Gilbert S. Keteltas writes: Communications between spouses are typically accorded a “marital communications privilege” because they are “regarded as so essential to the preservation of the marriage relationship as to outweigh the disadvantages to the administration of justice which the privilege entails.” But marital communications to or from a workplace computer just became less privileged…
Category: U.S.
Feds spying on innocent Americans just in case we might commit future crimes
Darlene Storm reports: As an innocent American, have you ever wondered how the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) agency gets around your privacy rights when it holds your information in databases for five years to analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior. . . just in case you might commit future crimes? “All you have to do…
District Court for the District of Columbia sidesteps 4th Amendment issues in Antoine Jones case
Feh. Readers will recall that the Supreme Court sent the Antoine Jones warrantless GPS surveillance case back to the District Court for the District of Columbia after ruling that 28 days of GPS surveillance and use of cell-site data held by a third party provider was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Unfortunately for…
Parents of strip-searched boy sue North Carolina school district
Joshua Rhett Miller reports: A 10-year-old North Carolina boy whose parents say he was traumatized when strip-searched by an assistant principal have sued district officials, alleging a violation of the boy’s constitutional protection from unreasonable searches and seizures. In an 11-page complaint, Clarinda and Lionel Shawn Cox allege their son, Justin, was searched for a missing…