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This morning’s Boston
Globe reports on the criminal prosecution and college disciplinary
proceeding simultaneously pending against two Wentworth Institute of Technology
male students who had the bad sense (and bad grace) to videotape two female
Massachusetts...
The ACLU has found itself a strong test case for determining
whether a student’s right to privacy is violated when he or she is
“outed” to the community by their school. A principal in Memphis, Tennessee,
apparently in order to cut down on public displays...
The New York Times is reporting that a group from Princeton has developed a way of reading encrypted data off of computer memory by literally freezing the data in place -- with liquid nitrogen -- before the data, in temporary storage, is erased. Private...
Harvey and I have an article on Simon Glik in today's Phoenix , following up on some of the post-trial coverage we've featured on this blog . In the piece we argue that the legislature needs to change the state wiretapping law in order to better...
Over at the law blog Concurring Opinions, Daniel Solove points to an AP article reporting that “Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers' carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb...
This past weekend, my research assistant James Tierney and I published an op-ed in the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly about the dubious arrest and prosecution of local attorney Simon Glik under the state "wiretapping" statute. The op-ed (and the...
By Harvey Silverglate I was reminded of the convoluted mish-mash that First Amendment law has become (thanks, in large measure, to courts not taking seriously the First Amendment's admonition that the legislature "shall make no law ... abridging...
It is all too true that when it
comes to questions of constitutional rights, the devil (or the angel, as the
case may be) can be in the details. This seems the case with the new Boston
Police Department initiative that would allow police officers to visit...
