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fromBloomberglaw
2 days agoOnline Wiretap Claims to Get Fresh Eye in 1st Cir. Privacy Clash
The First Circuit will clarify the Wiretap Act's applicability to online privacy claims against healthcare and financial sectors.
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fromLos Angeles Times
2 days ago'Amateur hour at the U.S. attorney's office': L.A. prosecutors face more losses in protest cases
Prosecutors faced significant challenges in two separate trials for assault on federal officers in Los Angeles, with one case potentially dismissed due to discovery issues.
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Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
2 weeks agoPatel dodges question about FBI buying location data
FBI Director Kash Patel admitted the agency purchases commercially available information from data brokers, potentially including location data, which Senator Wyden argues violates the Fourth Amendment without warrant requirements.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
4 days agoThe Ethically Fraught Four: Our Bracket Challenge Identifies The Four Trump Lawyers Most In Need Of An Ethics Probe - Above the Law
The ATL Madness bracket highlights which Trump administration lawyer deserves bar discipline, emphasizing the role of local licensing authorities in addressing unethical behavior.
Privacy professionals
fromWIRED
3 weeks agoUS Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI's Warrantless Wiretap Access
Bipartisan Congress members introduced legislation requiring FBI warrants for backdoor searches of Americans' communications, aligning with a 2025 federal court ruling against warrantless surveillance practices.
fromAbove the Law
1 month agoDiscovery As Truth-Seeking: Win Hard Without Playing Hide-The-Ball - Above the Law
Effective discovery requires more than compliance - it requires strategy. Litigators can balance expansive discovery rights and privacy concerns without slowing cases down through practical, results-focused approaches that consider proportionality, electronically stored information management, and the specific discovery rules applicable to their jurisdiction.
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US politics
fromAbove the Law
2 weeks agoMorning Docket: 03.18.26 - Above the Law
Chief Justice Roberts calls for ending personal attacks on judges, while questions arise about presidential official acts; meanwhile, legal developments span judicial conduct, cryptocurrency regulation, Section 230 reform, and national security concerns.
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fromABC7 Los Angeles
2 weeks agoAttorney General Pam Bondi subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Epstein files
Attorney General Pam Bondi was subpoenaed to testify before Congress about the Justice Department's handling of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking investigation and the release of related files.
US politics
fromwww.twincities.com
1 month agoHouse committee votes to subpoena Attorney General Bondi to answer questions over the Epstein files
The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi regarding the Justice Department's handling of Jeffrey Epstein investigation files, with bipartisan support indicating frustration over document review and release processes.
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Privacy professionals
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month agoEFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
EFF and ACLU filed an amicus brief arguing that border searches of electronic devices require warrants under the Fourth Amendment, citing increasing warrantless searches at borders.
Privacy professionals
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month agoVictory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices and Digital Data
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court dismissal, allowing a Fourth Amendment challenge to proceed against police warrants that broadly searched a protester's devices and a nonprofit's social media without adequate justification.
Privacy professionals
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month agoEFF to Third Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant
EFF and ACLU filed an amicus brief arguing that border searches of electronic devices require warrants under the Fourth Amendment, citing increasing warrantless searches at borders.
Privacy professionals
fromElectronic Frontier Foundation
1 month agoVictory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices and Digital Data
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court dismissal, allowing a Fourth Amendment challenge to proceed against police warrants that broadly searched a protester's devices and a nonprofit's social media without adequate justification.
fromABA Journal
2 weeks agoFederal judges speak out about threats becoming 'ordinary'
"What's most problematic is that the extraordinary has become ordinary. It's just a matter of course now that when you issue an opinion that some people don't like, you're going to get threats, you're going to get death threats, and that is obviously problematic on many levels."
Law
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 weeks agoNEW: Judge Blocks Trump DOJ Subpoenas Against Jerome Powell Over Lack of Evidence
A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning. The judge added that the government provided essentially zero evidence to suspect Chair Powell of a crime. He accused the government of presenting thin and unsubstantiated allegations against Powell.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks agoICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony
ICE agents in Oregon used a custom app called Elite to target neighborhoods and maintained daily arrest quotas, contradicting DHS claims of no quotas, as revealed in federal court testimony.
Law
fromFortune
2 weeks agoLuigi Mangione's lawyers say back-to-back state and federal trials violate his constitutional rights | Fortune
Luigi Mangione's defense team requested postponing his federal trial to January 2027 and moving his state trial to September to avoid simultaneous preparation for two serious trials.
Privacy professionals
fromBloomberglaw
1 month agoPrivacy Suits Under California Wiretap Law Stand on Shaky Ground
California courts are divided on whether the 1967 Invasion of Privacy Act applies to online tracking pixels, creating uncertainty for defendants and complicating legal compliance guidance.
US politics
fromAbove the Law
4 weeks agoMorning Docket: 03.06.26 - Above the Law
Nearly 200 former federal judges challenge the binding authority of unexplained Supreme Court shadow docket orders, while AI legal tools face regulatory scrutiny and the Trump administration designates Anthropic a supply chain risk over refused autonomous weapons development.
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fromPoynter
1 month agoRecording immigration agents in public is a constitutional right. Here's what the law says. - Poynter
Recording immigration agents in public is protected but contested, with federal claims of criminality clashing with First Amendment protections and courts questioning DHS policies.
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month agoUS gov't committee subpoenas Attorney General Pam Bondi over Epstein files
The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the Justice Department's handling of records in the Epstein investigation, with bipartisan support including five Republicans.
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks agoDOJ Attorney Throws Himself Under The Bus Rather Than Dragging Down Everyone Else - Above the Law
Assistant US attorney Rudy Renfer resigned after filing court briefs containing AI-generated fabricated quotes and false citations, then making misleading statements about the errors to a judge.
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks agoJust 2 Federal Law Clerks Filed Complaints Against Judges Last Year - Above the Law
Federal law clerks face systemic barriers preventing misconduct complaints against judges, with only two JCDA complaints filed in 2025 despite 106 documented cases of mistreatment in 2023.
Law
fromAbove the Law
3 weeks agoMorning Docket: 03.10.26 - Above the Law
Major legal developments include Anthropic's Defense Department lawsuit, judicial rulings on illegal appointees, law firm mergers, antitrust settlements, AI legal services expansion, Supreme Court shadow docket debates, and ChatGPT litigation over legal advice.
fromAxios
1 month agoWiles "in shock" over FBI phone-record subpoena
It is outrageous and deeply alarming that the previous FBI leadership secretly subpoenaed my own phone records - along with those of now-White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles - using flimsy pretexts and burying the entire process in prohibited case files designed to evade all oversight.
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fromEmptywheel
2 months agoWarrants for Innocent People Are Not Like Warrants for Suspects
As you know, Section 215 authorities are not interpreted in the same way that grand jury subpoena authorities are, and we are concerned that when Justice Department officials suggest that the two authorities are 'analogous' they provide the public with a false understanding of how surveillance is interpreted in practice.
US politics
fromAxios
1 month ago"The subpoenas are coming," bipartisan firm warns corporate America
Congressional Democrats will intensify oversight of large corporations, supplementing administration probes with piercing corporate investigations and targeting AI, healthcare, crypto, utilities, trade, and pricing.
fromThe Atlantic
2 months agoThe Court Case That Is Allowing ICE to Stop Just About Anyone It Wants
In 1996, the Supreme Court decided Whren v. United States, which came about when plainclothes vice officers patrolling in the District of Columbia passed a truck in a "high drug" area and "their suspicions were aroused." They had a hunch that the truck was involved in a drug operation. They chose to wait until it had violated a traffic ordinance (turning without a signal) and then used that violation as an excuse to stop the truck. In the course of searching the truck, they found crack cocaine.
Law
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fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago'Nothing about what is going on here is normal': A fight over evidence in Good, Pretti cases
State and county lawyers sought court orders to prevent federal agencies from destroying evidence and to compel evidence sharing after alleged mishandling in fatal shootings.
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 month agoMorning Docket: 02.09.26 - Above the Law
Numerous contentious developments: Fifth Circuit allowing indefinite detention of suspected undocumented migrants, high-profile appearances, campus censorship, market regulation, AI legal-advice concerns, and infrastructure litigation.
US politics
fromWIRED
2 months agoJudge Delays Minnesota ICE Decision While Weighing Whether State Was Being Illegally Punished
A federal judge ordered DHS to explain whether Operation Metro Surge uses armed raids to coerce Minnesota into abandoning sanctuary policies; operations continue pending the response.
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