News tagged with appellate judges
High court troubled by warrantless GPS tracking (Update)
The Supreme Court invoked visions of an all-seeing Big Brother and satellites watching us from above. Then things got personal Tuesday when the justices were told police could slap GPS devices on their cars ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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Rulings cloud issue of school MySpace suspensions
(AP) -- Federal appellate judges wrestling with whether schools can discipline students for Internet speech posted offsite reached different rulings Thursday in two Pennsylvania cases.
Feb 04, 2010 |
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GPS court ruling leaves US phone tracking unclear
A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say.
Feb 11, 2012 |
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Warrant needed for GPS tracking, high court says (Update)
(AP) -- In a rare defeat for law enforcement, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed on Monday to bar police from installing GPS technology to track suspects without first getting a judge's approval. The justices ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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High court to rule on TV indecency, GPS tracking
(AP) -- The Supreme Court has added a couple of high-profile constitutional challenges to its lineup of cases for next term: One looking at governmental regulation of television content and the other dealing with the authority ...
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Supreme Court to review warrantless GPS tracking (Update)
(AP) -- The Supreme Court will weigh in on an important privacy issue for the digital age: whether the police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspect's movements.
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Zuckerberg's former classmates press on with suit against Facebook
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss say they - not Mark Zuckerberg - invented Facebook. And they are willing to risk $160 million for the chance to prove it.
Mar 01, 2011 |
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The constitutionality of health care reform
President Obama’s health care reform legislation has been the subject of lively political and legal debate. Many lawsuits have been filed to prevent the implementation of the legislation. These lawsuits claim that ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Legal settlement is reached over student's Facebook comments about teacher
A former Florida high school student scored what her attorneys call a victory for the First Amendment last week with the end of her two-year legal battle over her Facebook comments about a teacher.
Dec 28, 2010 |
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Best judicial candidates need not apply -- and they don't
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gubernatorial appointment of judges to New York's highest court -- a process many legal scholars and officials believe is better than popular election -- has choked off access for most of the best candidates ...
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Nov 16, 2010 |
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US Supreme Court hands major victory to Big Tobacco
The US Supreme Court gave a substantial victory to major tobacco firms Monday, rebuffing an appeal that would have allowed the government to pocket 280 billion dollars of their profits.
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Judge's innovation may offer malpractice fix
(AP) -- Part listening, part cajoling, an innovative approach to resolving medical malpractice cases could become a model for courts around the country thanks to a pioneering judge who invested his own time ...
Jun 21, 2010 |
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