Adam Liptak writes about a privacy law case that may be better known to you for its culinary reference in a dissenting opinion, perhaps, then the substantive issues. But stay with the story, because it does get to the legal issues… In June, the metaphor of the turducken made its first appearance in American jurisprudence….
Texas school sued over cellphone search
It’s deja vu all over again. Cameron Langford of Courthouse News reports on yet another lawsuit involving the search and seizure of a student’s cellphone: A school district violated an eighth-grade girl’s civil rights and its own policies when it seized a cell phone from her, searched it, and punished her after finding “inappropriate” pictures…
Newspaper thwarts libel claim with E-Commerce Regulations defence
Out-Law.com reports on a libel case in the U.K. that may be of interest to U.S. readers also, as it demonstrates the contrast between our libel laws and the U.K.’s. Over here, the CDA Section 230 protects online publishers from liability for comments made by third parties. In the U.K., the newspaper successfully invoked their…
EFF Submits Brief in Key State Secrets Privilege Case
Cindy Cohn writes: EFF filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit’s en banc review of Mohamed v. Jeppesen, a case brought by the ACLU challenging the CIA’s extraordinary rendition program. A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had rejected the government’s argument that the case had to be dismissed at the outset…