Kenneth Ofgan reports: A school counselor may inform a parent or principal that a student is pregnant or has had an abortion, in order to prevent a clear and present health or safety danger, but is not required to do so and cannot be held liable for not doing so, California Attorney General Kamala D….
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U.S. Supreme Court Asked To Decide Whether Florida Police K-9 Violates Constitution
Curt Anderson reports: Franky the drug dog’s super-sensitive nose is at the heart of a question being put to the U.S. Supreme Court: Does a police K-9’s sniff outside a house give officers the right to get a search warrant for illegal drugs, or is the sniff itself an unconstitutional search? Florida’s highest state court…
MO: FBI Didn’t Need Warrant for GPS, Judge Says
While SCOTUS deliberates whether law enforcement needs a warrant to attach a GPS device to your car, Joe Harris reports that in the meantime, another federal court has ruled that no warrant was required: The FBI did not need a warrant to secretly install a GPS tracking device on a St. Louis City Treasurer’s Office…
Court OKs Immunity For Telecoms In Wiretap Case, But Remands Case Against NSA
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…