A county attorney in Kansas violated a girl’s privacy by showing around photos of her sexual assault, the teen and her mother claim in Topeka Federal Court. The Anderson County Attorney refused to prosecute the assailant, but showed other parents photos of the sexual assault, and was suspended from practicing law for 6 months for…
Category: U.S.
Warrantless search of hotel room unconstitutional
The warrantless search of a hotel room, after its occupant had been mistakenly given a key to another room and items belonging to that room’s occupant were stolen, violated the Fourth Amendment, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday. A divided panel agreed with U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White of the Northern…
Warrantless wiretaps just the tip
… The OIG report is ultimately one chapter in the larger story of how, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, both the executive and the legislative branches of government were willing to turn a blind eye to whatever they thought had to be done to stop further attacks. This attitude, which was shared…
Today’s the day, Jewel v. NSA
At 10:30 a.m. today, PT, in a federal courtroomin San Francisco, Judge Vaughn Walker will hear oral arguments in the government’s motion to dismiss Jewel v. NSA, a case involving the warrantless surveillance of millions of Americans. Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be representing the plaintiffs. As it has done in…