Paul Cassell writes: In an amicus brief for leading crime victims’ rights organizations, I explain why ex-FBI lawyer Clinesmith’s crime of altering an email as part of an effort to renew a warrant to surveil Dr. Carter Page made Page a “victim” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act. On January 29, former-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith…
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Selfie-Snapping Rioters Leave FBI a Trail of Over 140,000 Images, Internet sleuthing explodes, raising concerns
Todd Shields, Kartikay Mehrotra, Naomi Nix, and Jennifer A Dlouhy report: The FBI arrested one man after a co-worker at a western Maryland restaurant reported seeing him in images of people assaulting the U.S. Capitol. A Texas man was charged after his ex-wife recognized him in a social-media video and called authorities, noting that it…
New York Could Become the Next Hotbed of Class Action Litigation Over Biometric Privacy
Joseph Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: Dubbed the “Biometric Privacy Act,” New York Assembly Bill 27 (“BPA”) is virtually identical to the Biometric Information Privacy Act in Illinois, 740 ILCS 14 et seq. (BIPA). Enacted in 2008, BIPA only recently triggered thousands of class actions in Illinois. If the BPA is enacted in New York, it likely will not take…
Two school bus drivers suspended for attending Capitol rally sue county superintendent (UPDATED)
Chris Dickerson reports: MARTINSBURG – Two Jefferson County school bus drivers have sued the county school superintendent after they were suspended for attending the rally last week that led to the storming of the U.S. Capitol. Tina Renner and Pamela McDonald filed their lawsuit January 11 in U.S. District Court against Dr. Bondy Shay Gibson….