The City of Richmond is investigating allegations a city staffer breached city privacy policies. A Richmond woman, who does not want to be identified, said she was shocked when the grandmother of a girl who stays with her family each summer showed up at a local swimming pool where the girl and the woman’s own…
Judge: Tenenbaum guilty of copyright infringement
In a reversal of her decision Thursday night, Judge Nancy Gertner has issued a directed verdict against P2P defendant Joel Tenenbaum, ruling that he is liable for infringing the record labels’ copyrights on all 30 of the songs in question. It will be up to the jury to determine whether the infringement was willful and…
Fourth Amendment rights end at the water’s edge
FourthAmendment.com has posted an excerpt from the court’s order on motions to dismiss (pdf) in Ibrahim v. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., a case that involved an alien being detained and searched after erroneously being placed on the no-fly list. The court held that although an alien’s rights are constitutionally protected while they are on U.S….
McKinnon loses extradition appeal
The British computer hacker Gary McKinnon failed today in his last-ditch attempt to avoid extradition to the US where he could face a sentence of up to 60 years in a high-security prison. The high court decided against overturning a refusal by Keir Starmer, the director of public prosecutions, to sanction a trial of the…