Brad Stone reports: Verified Identity Pass, a company founded by the entrepreneur Steven Brill, offered travelers a tempting proposition: pay up to $199 a year, submit to a fingerprint and iris scan, and skip to the front of interminable airport security lines. But last June, the company left its roughly 200,000 paying customers stranded, saying…
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Hoyer throws cold water on bill introduced to repeal retroactive immunity
Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) announced today that the introduction of the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act, a bill that would eliminate retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. The immunity had been included in the FISA Amendment Acts of…
Action Alert: Support the JUSTICE Act
A call to action from the good folks over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): As Congress begins to consider renewing sections of the USA PATRIOT Act that are set to expire at the end of the year, we have a unique opportunity to press for new civil liberties protections to shield ordinary Americans against…
Football and Federalism: A Case Centers on NFL Drug Testing
Michael C. Dorf, Professor of Law at Cornell University, had a column on FindLaw this week: Last week, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dealt an apparent blow to the National Football League’s drug-testing policy. In Williams v. NFL, the court held that league’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA)…