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…
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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)…
Judge orders Google to deactivate user’s Gmail account, but wait, there’s more…
Wendy Davis reports that in the Rocky Mountain Bank case previously covered here: In a highly unusual move, a federal judge has ordered Google to deactivate the email account of a user who was mistakenly sent confidential financial information by a bank. The order, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge James Ware in the…
Photojournalist sues government over raid
Laura Sennett is a photojournalist who covers political demonstrations and protests and often publishes her photographs under the alias of “Isis.” On April 12,2008, Sennett was photographing protests in Washington, D.C. related to the spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The protests became violent, and Sennett claims that like others, she ran away…