Jason Dearen of Associated Press reports: A federal appeals court on Thursday said a 2008 law that granted telecommunications companies legal immunity for helping the National Security Agency with an email and telephone eavesdropping program is constitutional. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that…
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Court seals ACLU challenge to Twitter subpoena–Statement by the ACLU of Massachusetts
Following today’s court ruling where the court refused to quash the Twitter subpoena I’ve been covering on this blog, the ACLU of Massachusetts released the following statement: We are disappointed and concerned that a Suffolk Superior Court judge today held a secret hearing over the objections of lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union of…
Update: Judge refuses to quash subpoena of Twitter account used by person linked to Occupy Boston
Martine Powers reports: A Suffolk Superior Court judge today ruled against a motion by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union to quash a subpoena for information from Twitter about a user involved with Occupy Boston. On December 14, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley filed a subpoena with the social networking site, asking for…
Occupy blogger fighting subpoena – but is Twitter?
Milton J. Valencia reports: The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is fighting on behalf of a blogger with apparent Occupy Boston ties who has been subjected to a subpoena that authorities filed through a social media site. Peter Krupp, an attorney from Lurie and Krupp LLC, who is working on behalf of the ACLU,…