Annie Youderian reports: Signs declaring “Thank God for dead soldiers” and “Fag troops” at the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq may have been “distasteful and vulgar,” but they are nonetheless protected by the First Amendment, the 4th Circuit ruled Thursday, overturning a $5 million verdict against the Westboro Baptist Church. The three-judge panel…
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…
Should we have celebrated the Constitution?
Matt Hutchins reports in the Harvard Law Record: On the 222nd anniversary of the adoption of the United States Constitution at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Harvard University fulfilled its federally mandated celebration of the Constitution by convening a panel of experts to examine what aspects of the document deserve to be celebrated and what…
Rotenberg: What’s Privacy in the Age of Facebook?
Marc Rotenberg, the Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has a piece over on Huffington Post: Modern privacy begins with the understanding that personal information will be widely accessible. That’s as true for web 2.0 as it was for the early Internet, and for the telephone. It’s a paradox to be sure….