The federal government has agreed to settle for $3 million a long-running suit in federal district court in Washington that alleged a former CIA officer and a State Department official unlawfully eavesdropped on a drug enforcement agent in Burma. The terms of the agreement were detailed in court papers filed Tuesday night in the U.S….
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WI: State Supreme Court hears arguments on gay marriage amendment
Patrick Marley reports: The state’s ban on gay marriage should be tossed aside because lawmakers did not take the right steps to amend the Wisconsin Constitution, a lawyer argued Tuesday before the state Supreme Court. Voters must be asked separately about every change proposed to the constitution, attorney Lester Pines argued. But in 2006 they…
Maine vote repeals gay marriage law
Michael Falcone reports: Maine voters on Tuesday repealed a state law granting same-sex couples the right to marry, defeating an effort by gay activists who hoped the state would become the first to approve gay marriage at the polls. Nearly 53 percent of voters opted to throw out a same-sex marriage law passed by the…
New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions
Jennifer Granick of the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides some legal analysis of recent court decisions involving stored email communications. Last week, two new district court opinions took opposing views on the question of whether the Fourth Amendment protects stored email. One of the cases easily adopted the prevailing view that the Constitution protects electronic communications,…