Jeff Neuburger writes: In August, we wrote about the ruling of a New Jersey appellate court in Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., in which the court took a very narrow view of the ability of employers to monitor the e-mail communications of employees over its computer networks. In that case, which is now on…
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Confidential UAlbany documents part of Climategate leak
Chris White reports: At least two confidential documents that SUNY lawyers refused to release earlier this year were leaked as part of thousands hacked from a top climate research center last month. The documents were made available by independent researcher Douglas Keenan. In August 2007, Keenan wrote a paper accusing UAlbany Professor Wei-Chyung Wang of…
UK: When does a hobby become an employment issue?
Grania Langdon-Down reports: A senior military analyst with the New York-based Human Rights Watch has been suspended while the organisation investigates his internet postings about his hobby of collecting Nazi and other war memorabilia. Tom Porteous, the London director of Human Rights Watch, says that the group is looking at Marc Garlasco’s blogs to see…
N.H. psychiatrist criticizes VA medical center office search
Mark Davis reports: Government investigators, acting without a warrant, had no right to search the office of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center psychiatrist who now faces criminal and civil charges, the psychiatrist’s lawyers argue in a recent court filing. Lawyers for William Weeks of Lyme, N.H., charged with mismanaging contracts between the VA and Dartmouth…