Samantha Hawkins reports on the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lange v. California: Raising the bar for the exception to warrant requirements under the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday that police should get less leeway when investigating misdemeanor crimes versus felonies in progress. “The flight of a suspected misdemeanant does [Read More…]
Shreya Argawal reports: The Delhi High Court has refused to stay the Competition Commissionof India’s (CCI) enquiry against WhatsApp’s new privacy policy. A vacation division bench of Justices Anup Jairam Bhambhani and Jasmeet Singh was hearing an appeal by WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook Inc against a single bench [Read More…]
From TheNewspaper.com: Wisconsin Supreme Court tells police they need to get a warrant before taking blood from unconscious drivers. Police in Wisconsin may no longer draw blood from unconscious motorists following a state Supreme Court ruling last week. The justices declared unconstitutional a provision of state law stating unresponsive motorists [Read More…]
Cain Burdeau reports: The European Union’s high court kept in line with the bloc’s tight privacy laws on Tuesday with an order for Latvia to stop making people’s driving records easily available to anyone seeking them. By making people’s past driving offenses available to the public upon request, Latvia is violating the [Read More…]