This was posted as a wiki project, but is more appropriate as a blog post. The poster linked to an article titled Dad of a fallen marine perseveres against protests at military funerals and asked these questions: I am just wondering what people think about this. Secondly, did the protesters have a right to protest [...]
A NYTimes article published a few days after the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Miller v. Mitchell (f/k/a Miller v. Skumanick) re-evaluates applying sex offender laws to teenagers who send nude pictures of themselves or others via cell phone, or sexting. The Third Circuit upheld the trial court’s order barring a state prosecutor [...]
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
On the heels of Guns, Coffee, and Bodily Autonomy Doonesbury this week places characters in a Starbucks teeming with open-carry advocates. The current daily strip and links to previous strips and the Doonesbury archive can be found here: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html Sphere: Related Content Related posts Guns, Coffee, and Bodily Autonomy (0)
Speaking of fundamental rights and Starbucks Locked, Loaded, and Ready to Caffeinate reports on the campaign by gun-rights advocates “to carry unconcealed weapons in the 38 or more states that have so-called open-carry laws allowing guns to be carried in public view with little or no restrictions.” Open-carry advocates are “showing up at so-called meet-ups, [...]
On the Friday the Massachusetts house passed anti-bullying legislation by unanimous vote. The state senate passed similar legislation the week before. The governor has said he will sign the bill after the senate and house versions are reconciled. Proponents of legislative remedies to bullying praise the house’s version “because it requires school officials–bus drivers, cafeteria [...]
Saturday, January 30, 2010
I’m having great fun doing a directed study this semester on privacy law. Today the student emailed, saying she was torn between two deeply-held principles: the First Amendment protects our right to receive all the information we need to make informed choices, without screening or censoring, and our natural right to privacy and human dignity [...]
Sunday, February 15, 2009
How to Ensure Police Database Accuracy is an essay from security expert Bruce Schneier about the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Herring v. U.S. limiting application of the exclusionary rule. Police found illegal drugs and a gun when they searched Herring’s residence after arresting him on a warrant they later learned had been withdrawn. The [...]