JURIST – ACLU appeals domestic wiretap challenge to US Supreme Court:
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a certiorari petition Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to hear a challenge of the government’s domestic surveillance program that was rejected by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in July.
Ex parte Jackson, which dealt with government agents opening mail in search of banned lottery materials, hints at the future Court's ruling on wiretaps in Katz v. United States that the Fourth Amendment "protects people, not places."
The Supreme Court has accepted a new case on to its docket concerning the constitutionality of a Washington State law being used as the basis to publish the names of signers of a petition to restrict gay rights.
Should a court reporter own the copyright on his or her work product, and be able to force everyone to pay for it into the future. "No," says an appeals court, overruling a lower court decision to the contrary.
Extending the Fourth Amendment beyond the home: Ex parte Jackson (1878)
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Date posted: Oct 4, 2007
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