Internet
Wikimedia upstream lawsuit underlines massive government surveillance of our Internet activity
On May 23, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled 2-1 that Wikimedia has standing to challenge upstream surveillance by the National Security Agency ("NSA"). Wikimedia says" "The government has acknowledged that it conducts two forms of surveillance under Section...
Narrow tailoring is needed for restrictions on Internet access by probationers & parolees
Plenty of probation agents and sentencing judges may have a penchant for barring access to the Internet for certain convicted sex offenders, in such cases as sexual assault and child pornography. However, doing so in a knee-jerk fashion and without narrow tailoring violates a convicted...
Persuading juries and judges in the Internet and television age of information overload
If the trial lawyer has done his or her job well enough, at the end of the trial, not only will s/he win, but will leave the jury and judge wanting to hear the lawyer talk even more, rather than rushing to their cellphones to...