Federal court – warrantless search of protestor’s video cam violated Fourth Amendment
FourthAmendment.com points to a recent news story out of Oregon that searching a videocam without a warrant, even incident to an arrest, is a Fourth Amendment violation. Bryan Denson reports: The rules of engagement became clearer in Eugene's U.S. District Court last week, when a civil jury determined that a city police sergeant violated an environmental activist's constitutional protections against illegal search and seizure during a 2009 leafletting campaign outside a bank. The eight-person panel determined that Sgt. Bill Solesbee arrested environmentalist Josh Schlossberg without probable cause and used excessive force. But it was Solesbee's next act that sent legal minds across ...
California family settles lawsuit over leaked crash images
Dan Whitcomb of Reuters reports a settlement in a precedent-setting case I've been covering for the past several years: The family of a teen whose mangled corpse was shown in horrific car-crash photos that went viral online has settled a lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol for $2.37 million, ending a 5-year legal battle that changed state law. The extremely graphic pictures, taken by investigators and leaked by two dispatchers, were posted across the Internet and used to taunt family members of 18-year-old Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras following her 2006 crash on an Orange County highway. The settlement was made public by the highway ...
Another subpoena to Twitter for Occupy related account
sosadmin writes: Twitter today informed user @destructuremal that the State of New York had issued a subpoena for his account information. The account holder, Malcolm Harris of New York City, is an Occupy Wall Street activist who has been involved in movement organizing since at least September 2011. Read more on PrivacySOS. The subpoena says: TWITTER IS DIRECTED not to disclose the existence of this subpoena to any party. Such disclosure would impede the investigation being conducted and interfere with the enforcement of law. So exactly who/what authority is directing Twitter not to disclose? Does such "direction" have the force of a court order gagging Twitter? ...
FDA workers sue agency over monitoring personal e-mails
Ellen Nakashima and Lisa Rein report: The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by the scientists and doctors, who filed a lawsuit against the FDA in U.S. District Court in Washington this week — took place over two years as the plaintiffs accessed their personal Gmail accounts from government computers. Read more in The Washington Post.
First rulings in our lawsuit over DHS travel records
From The Identity Project U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg has issued his first rulings inHasbrouck v. CBP, our lawsuit seeking information from and about DHS records of the travels of individual US citizens. Judge Seeborg granted some of the government’s motions for summary judgment and some of ours, ordered US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to conduct further searches and disclose any non-exempt responsive records they find, and ordered the parties to confer on the remaining unresolved issues. We’re still studying the order, which we received notice of late yesterday. But here are some key aspects of the ruling — including some issues of first ...
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Federal court – warrantless search of protestor’s video cam violated Fourth Amendment
FourthAmendment.com points to a recent news story out of Oregon that searching a videocam without a warrant, even incident to an arrest, is a Fourth Amendment violation. Bryan Denson reports: The rules of engagement became clearer in Eugene’s U.S. District Court last week, when a civil jury determined that a city police sergeant violated an... [Read more of this story]
California family settles lawsuit over leaked crash images
Dan Whitcomb of Reuters reports a settlement in a precedent-setting case I’ve been covering for the past several years: The family of a teen whose mangled corpse was shown in horrific car-crash photos that went viral online has settled a lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol for $2.37 million, ending a 5-year legal battle that changed... [Read more of this story]
Another subpoena to Twitter for Occupy related account
sosadmin writes: Twitter today informed user @destructuremal that the State of New York had issued a subpoena for his account information. The account holder, Malcolm Harris of New York City, is an Occupy Wall Street activist who has been involved in movement organizing since at least September 2011. Read more on PrivacySOS. The subpoena says: TWITTER... [Read more of this story]
FDA workers sue agency over monitoring personal e-mails
Ellen Nakashima and Lisa Rein report: The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents show. The surveillance — detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed... [Read more of this story]
First rulings in our lawsuit over DHS travel records
From The Identity Project U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg has issued his first rulings inHasbrouck v. CBP, our lawsuit seeking information from and about DHS records of the travels of individual US citizens. Judge Seeborg granted some of the government’s motions for summary judgment and some of ours, ordered US Customs and Border Protection... [Read more of this story]
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