From New Yorker: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit just chastised Shira Scheindlin, the trial judge in the case challenging the constitutionality of the N.Y.P.D.’s stop-and-frisk policy, for speaking out about the issue while the trial was going on. In a ruling today, the appeals court…
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John Paul Stevens receives a 2012 Medal of Freedom from President Obama. (Reuters) From The Atlantic: John Paul Stevens, the avuncular former justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, gave an interesting speech yesterday at the American Constitution Society Convention in Washington, D.C. Not only did he offer some provocative analysis…
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The Eastern District of New York ruled that probable cause and a warrant are necessary to access and obtain long-term cell phone records to track the owner’s location. (3)
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A Caucasian female was recording video of the Rochester police handcuffing an African-American male in the 19th Ward, a predominantly African-American neighborhood in Rochester, NY. The RPD arrested the female for video-taping their activities from her own front lawn. The woman arrested was charged with Obstructing Governmental Administration and has…
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