In November 2004, California enacted a law requiring that anyone arrested for a felony have their DNA collected. This amounted to a significant expansion of the prior law that allowed […]
Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that law enforcement may not search a cellphone absent a warrant or exigent circumstances. The vast majority of law enforcement searches occur […]
What rights does a photographer have to take a photo and what limits may law enforcement or the courts impose on those rights? The courts in California have not clearly […]
Today Justice James A. Richman of the First Appellate District authored an opinion affirming the use by law enforcement of GPS locating services obtained from a stolen cell phone to locate […]
Four years ago, I was part of a legal team that represented a group of bloggers that filed a friend of the court brief in O’Grady v. Superior Court, a […]
The Contra Costa Times reports: A federal judge ruled Wednesday that government investigators illegally wiretapped the phone conversations of an Islamic charity and two American lawyers without a search warrant. […]
The Associated Press reports: The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too. US law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking […]
Via Ninth Circuit Blog comes a recent order from the Ninth Circuit denying rehearing in United States v. Gonzalez concerning the application of a new search and seizure decision by […]
Notable legal news and views from around the legal world: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has appealed the dismissal of a lawsuit that the EFF filed on behalf of AT&T customers […]
Yahoo! Tech reports: Miffed that, if you return home from travel overseas, U.S. Customs can decide to search, and even seize, all the files on your computer, your camera, and […]
Fox Business News reports: New torture claims have been leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib “ghost” detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without […]
The AP reports: The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to civil rights and privacy advocates who oppose the Bush administrations warrantless wiretapping program. The justices, without comment, turned down […]