Liz Potocsnak reports on a lawsuit arising from the seizure and urinalysis of a spectator in a Tennessee courtroom. The judge was eventually censored for his “routine practice” in his courtroom, and now the individual is suing: A judge in Dickson County, Tenn., had officers pull a spectator out of his courtroom “on a hunch,”…
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Suits filed over Aurora’s use of medical data in bankruptcy cases
Bruce Vielmetti reports: Susan Dandridge knew that when she sought protection in bankruptcy court last year, information about her debts and income would go into a public court file. “It’s old bills and stuff from my earlier life I’m trying to clean up,” said the 53-year-old admissions adviser at Herzing University, a for-profit college with…
Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’
Simmons, Joshua L., Buying You: The Government’s Use of Fourth-Parties to Launder Data about ‘The People’ (September 19, 2009). Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 2009, No. 3, p. 950. The full-text article is available as a free download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1475524 Abstract: Your information is for sale, and the government is buying it at alarming…
“Never mind:” DHS drops attempts to subpoena bloggers who posted TSA directive
Chris Elliott has this happy update on the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to subpoena his records: The Department of Homeland Security has withdrawn a subpoena that would have required me to furnish it with all documents related to the Dec. 25 TSA Security Directive which was published on my Web site. The move came…