Law blogger Kashmir Hill thought she had few illusions about Internet privacy, according to her biography page for a True/Slant blog about privacy, technology and the law.
Thomas Drake saw himself as a patriot, a National Security Agency worker who cared about the millions of dollars it was squandering on the wrong surveillance technology.
When lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union filed a March lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of practices in Rhode Island’s truancy courts, the media relations effort cranked into high gear.
A Washington state judge whose daughter is a friend of Amanda Knox is facing a legal ethics case for writing on King County court stationery to the Italian judges overseeing…
Reversing a lower court ruling that a screenwriter’s critical comments on Craigslist about a California lawyer were protected by the First Amendment, a state appeals court last week reinstated attorney…
A federal bankruptcy court ruled that sending an e-mail message with a hyperlink to a defamatory blog post can be considered a publication for the purposes of a libel claim.
California senatorial candidate Chuck DeVore violated rocker Don Henley’s copyrights on two songs when he used them as the basis for YouTube campaign commercials, a federal judge tentatively ruled this…
A Kalamazoo, Mich., college student outraged over a $118 charge to retrieve his towed car he says was unjustified has found himself with a defamation lawsuit from T&J Towing seeking…
An Arkansas mother who posted messages on her 17-year-old son’s Facebook account, making it look as though social networking messages she wrote came from him, has been convicted of harassment…
A speech by former Supreme Court Justice David Souter on constitutional law at Harvard University’s 359th commencement last week was an “extraordinary gift” to the graduates, writes a columnist for…
Nick Nefedro says he can forecast the future. So maybe the fortune teller should have known what would happen when he tried to set up shop two years ago in…
Forced to choose between her job and speaking on radio talk shows and at Tea Party events, a Florida prosecutor was fired this week after she refused to give up…
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