by jweinell | Sep 7, 2012 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Human Rights, LGBTQ Rights
The recent decision of the U.S. District Court of the District of Massachusetts in Kosilek has been in the news primarily for the shock value of the court finding that the Department of Corrections had to provide gender reassignment surgery to Michelle Kosilek. The...
by jweinell | Aug 9, 2012 | Amicus, Courts & Judicial Interpretation, Criminal Justice, Human Rights
Overshadowed by the Obamacare decision, Miller v. Alabama bans mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles, building upon Graham v. Florida’s ban on life without parole for juveniles charged with non-homicide offenses. The case raises several interesting...
by jweinell | Apr 2, 2012 | Amicus, Criminal Justice
The ACLU recently released its report on police practices in tracking cell phones. The requests to law enforcement offices around the country were made in August, before the recent Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Jones on the 4th Amendment implications of GPS...
by jweinell | Mar 6, 2012 | Amicus, Uncategorized
Late last month, the White House released a new Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. This framework only applies to private uses of information, and does not change existing regulations on public uses of information. It supplements, rather than replaces, existing...
by jweinell | Feb 26, 2012 | Amicus, Freedom of Expression
Last month, Viviane Reding, the European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights, and Citizenship, proposed a new framework for data protection in the EU. One of the most controversial elements of this proposal is the “right to be forgotten.” The basic idea is...
