Since 1967, the US Supreme Court has acknowledged that the 4th Amendment will have to evolve with the advances in technology. The case law is getting interesting.
US v. Garcia is a 2007 case from the 7th Circuit. Follow the link and have a look at the decision for yourself. You can read a [...]The ABA doesn’t require law schools to teach law, nor does it require them to prepare their students for the practice of law. Thanks to ABA Resolution 112B, it is OK for a law school to require that its students learn the law – for an extra fee – from outside teachers at bar exam [...]
Race and social class issues are complicated. Most people have strong feelings about them, and our debased corporate media doesn’t make it any easier to think clearly about our society. UCLA Law Professor Richard Sander is an important scholar on affirmative action. This is a topic I care about. For a number of years, I [...]
Auction Rate Bonds have been marketed by Wall Street as a safe and liquid alternative to cash. They were not. Last February these auctions started to fail. Investors couldn’t get their money when they needed it. In the last few days, UBS Citigroup and Merrill Lynch agreed to buy back about thirty seven billion dollars. [...]
Labor won a victory in the California case of Edwards v. Arthur Anderson.
Edwards was an accountant for Arthur Anderson. The company folded its US operations due to the disgrace of Enron. Edwards wanted a job. The company wanted him to sign away any claims he might have with the company in return for [...]Our elections have been corrupted by the fact that the computers we use are proprietary. Both the hardware and the software are secret. That’s bad news for democracy.
The good news is that Open Source Voting Software was a success at the Linux-World Conference and Expo.A military commission has convicted Salim Hamdan of giving Material Support for Terrorism. It acquitted him of the primary charge he faced: Conspiracy to Commit Terrorist Acts. Looking at these proceedings is like reading the autopsy report on the American Legal System.
Even if this defendant had been acquitted of all the charges, he [...]House Resolution 5843 would end the federal prohibition of possession of up to 100 grams of marijuana. and for the non-profit sale of up to an ounce. HR 5843 would provide a $100 fine for public use of marijuana. Sadly, HR 5843 would not take marijuana off of Schedule One List of drugs under the [...]
The Department of Homeland Security claims that it has the right to take away a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device, keep it indefinitely, and share the data with anybody they want, without any suspicion of wrongdoing.
House Resolution 6702, by Ron Paul and Eliot Engel, would require the Department to show reasonable suspicion [...]Glass-Steagall is a banking law that was passed as part of the New Deal 75 years ago. This law required banks to choose between being commercial or investment banks. It was repealed in 1999 at the end of the Clinton era. Why should we think about old banking regulations? Because the financial system is in [...]
