Vanessa Blum reports on U.S. v. Collins, a case involving Anonymous’s attacks on PayPal in retaliation for not permitting donations to WikiLeaks. One of the interesting – and important – issues that has arisen is the extent to which prosecutors really need to purge and/or return material and files on seized computers that are not…
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No harm, no foul? Facebook seeks dismissal of $15B tracking lawsuit
Joel Rosenblatt reports: Facebook Inc. (FB) said a $15 billion lawsuit accusing the company of secretly tracking the Internet activity of its users after they log off should be dismissed because the subscribers didn’t specify how they were harmed. The complaint suffers from an “utter lack of allegations of any injury to these particular named…
OWS lawyer asks court to overturn Twitter order
Adam Klasfield reports that Malcolm Harris’s attorney has filed a writ of mandamus, seeking to have the court overturn a ruling that required Twitter to turn over his tweets to the District Attorney. Read more about this latest development on Courthouse News.
Thoughts on the Oral Argument in the Fifth Circuit Cell-Site Case
Orin Kerr commented on yesterday’s oral argument: The Fifth Circuit held its oral argument in its Fourth Amendment cell-site case today; the audio is here. On the whole, I thought the argument was pretty unilluminating. The judges spent a lot of time trying to figure out the statute and the facts, but they had surprisingly few…