Appeals Court Says DOJ Can Keep Its Evidence-Production Guidelines To Itself
Judge Alex Kozinski pointed out the obvious in a Ninth Circuit Appeals Court decision: There is an epidemic of Brady violations abroad in the land. Only judges can put a stop to it. Brady evidence --...
View ArticleDrug Dealer's Lawyers Want To Know How Yahoo Is Recovering Communications It...
Yahoo's in the middle of another national security-related courtroom battle, albeit somewhat inadvertently. Its response to a discovery order in a drug dealer's trial has left the defense wondering...
View ArticleThe NYPD's Third 'Forfeiture' Option: Call Seized Items 'Evidence;' Never...
It's not just asset forfeiture being used by law enforcement to take property away from people. With civil asset forfeiture (as opposed to criminal asset forfeiture), property is deemed "guilty," even...
View ArticleAnother Judge Declares FBI's Playpen Warrant Invalid, Suppresses All Evidence
Cyrus Farivar of Ars Technica reports that another federal judge has found the warrant used by the FBI to deploy its Tor-busting malware is invalid. This finding isn't unique. Multiple judges in...
View ArticleDOJ Tells Forensic Experts To Stop Overstating The 'Scientific Certainty' Of...
The DOJ is finally addressing some long-ignored problems with the forensic evidence its prosecutors rely on. For two decades, FBI forensics experts handed out flawed testimony in hundreds of criminal...
View ArticleOracle's 'Gamechanger' Evidence Really Just Evidence Of Oracle Lawyers...
It's the case that will never die. As you may recall, over the summer, Oracle asked Judge William Alsup for yet another trial over Google's copying of some Java APIs in Android, claiming that Google...
View ArticleCourt Says Deleting Browser History To 'Avoid Embarrassment' Isn't...
A court order demanding the retention of digital evidence morphed into the worst-case scenario for a defendant in a Canadian "breach of confidence" lawsuit. Even though the defendant's actions were...
View ArticleJayme Gordon Guilty On All 4 Counts Of Wire Fraud In Scheme To Sue Dreamworks...
It was somewhat breathtaking back in 2011 to see the multiple accusations of copyright infringement brought against Dreamworks' movie Kung Fu Panda. While none of the suits appear to have stuck, the...
View ArticleAppeals Court Dumps Infringement Lawsuit Against EA After Plaintiff Fails To...
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed [PDF] the dismissal of a copyright infringement suit brought against Electronic Arts by Robin Antonick, a programmer who worked on the Apple II version...
View ArticleJudge Tells DOJ It Can't Un-Suppress Evidence By Starting The Indictment...
Sure, we like the DOJ when it's handing down scathing reviews of local law enforcement agencies and belatedly issuing warrant requirements for IMSI catchers, but we're not nearly as thrilled when it...
View ArticleFBI Dismisses Child Porn Prosecution After Refusing To Hand Over Details On...
The FBI has decided to let one of its Playpen defendants walk rather than turn over information on its Network Investigative Technique. The NIT, deployed all over the world on the back of a single...
View ArticleCourt Says 791 Days Of Warrantless Location Tracking 'Unreasonable," But...
A confusing and disturbing conclusion has been reached by a New York federal court. The court has decided that 791 days of location tracking with a GPS ankle bracelet is unreasonable, but somehow not...
View ArticleWhat The US Intelligence 'Russia Hacked Our Election' Report Could Have...
By now it's quite clear that many in the US intelligence community believe strongly that Russia tried to influence the US election, and part of that included hacks into the DNC's computer systems, a...
View ArticleProsecutors Looking Into $2 Field Drug Tests After Investigation, Figure...
The fallout from cheap field drug tests continues. The lab that does actual testing of seized substances for the Las Vegas PD had previously expressed its doubts about the field tests' reliability,...
View ArticleDOJ, Obama Administration Fight Order Requiring The Full CIA Torture Report...
The Obama administration has responded to calls to declassify the full CIA Torture Report with a "will this do?" promise to lock up one copy in the presidential archives. While this ensures one copy...
View ArticleCourt Orders Prosecutors To Stop Dragging Feet On 20k Convictions Resulting...
In 2012, it was discovered that Annie Dookhan, a Massachusetts state drug lab technician, had falsified thousands of drug test results. Perhaps this would have been discovered before it became...
View ArticlePolice Say No Evidence Of Value Was Lost In Ransomware Attack, Except Maybe...
Ransomware is everywhere. And it's affecting everything, including critical systems. Sure, it's kind of humiliating to be locked out of your smart TV, but hospitals are being locked out of patient...
View ArticleCanadian Prosecutors Cut Loose 35 Mafia Suspects Rather Than Turn Over Info...
Canadian law enforcement brought down a massive criminal conspiracy. Now, thanks to information it doesn't want to release to the court, most of what was brought down will be re-erected by the...
View ArticleDOJ Memo Shows NSA And White House Lawyers Mainly Unconcerned About Evidence...
Charlie Savage of the New York Times has obtained another document detailing the internal guidelines of the NSA's STELLAR WIND program as a result of the NYT's long-running FOIA lawsuit against the...
View ArticleCop Arrested, Fired After Wife Captures His Abusive Actions On His Own Body...
This is one of the strangest "but for video" cases ever. We know many cops are hesitant to clip body-worn cameras on themselves for a variety of reasons. The official statements always express concern...
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