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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...
There is a common misconception that society pays a heavy
price for allowing free speech – emotional harm to members of target groups,
leakage of national security secrets, stuff like that. In truth, the substantial
positives deriving from vigorous free...
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...
If you doubt that Alice in Wonderland is the best primer available for understanding the legal system, you might read Tony Mauro's latest piece in the Legal Times . The Supreme Court just denied certiorari in the case challenging the government's...
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...
A few days ago we blogged about the motions hearing for Commonwealth v. Glik , the case in which a local lawyer was charged with wiretapping (among other charges) for videotaping Boston police making an arrest. (The op-ed Harvey and I wrote about the...
By Wendy Kaminer Telecomunications companies that exposed their customers to warrantless surveillance, in what they claim was service to the nation, have discovered the limits to their patriotism: “Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to...
