Year: 2015

Are Topless Panhandlers Covered by the First Amendment?

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Are Topless Panhandlers Covered by the First Amendment?New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio raised the possibility of dismantling Times Square’s popular pedestrian plaza to deal with complaints about a surge of topless and costumed panhandlers at one of the world’s busiest crossroads.As The Wall Street Journal reports, the idea floated by the mayor and endorsed by the city’s police commissioner prompted a backlash from transportation... [...]

Caitlyn Jenner Could Face Manslaughter Charge in Fatal Car Crash

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Caitlyn Jenner Could Face Manslaughter Charge in Fatal Car CrashCaitlyn Jenner could face a manslaughter charge in a fatal February car crash in California after investigators determined she was driving too fast, officials and law-enforcement sources said on Thursday.The four-vehicle crash involving the former Olympian and current reality-TV star left a woman dead on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu on Feb 7.Traffic investigators have... [...]

Hackers Finally Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data

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Hackers Finally Post Stolen Ashley Madison DataHACKERS WHO STOLE sensitive customer information from the cheating site AshleyMadison.com appear to have made good on their threat to post the data online.A data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size, was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser. The files appear to include account details and log-ins for some 32 million users of the social networking... [...]

Police Reform In U.S.: Some Progress, A Long Way To Go

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Police Reform In U.S.: Some Progress, A Long Way To Go Policing in the U.S. is showing some signs of improvement, thanks to the attention paid to it by the public and by government officials---and despite the well-publicized misdeeds of a few law enforcement officers in the past year. That's the conclusion of members of President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, who addressed a conference at George Mason University in... [...]

“Allowing a reality television program to film an ongoing murder investigation is a recipe for trouble”

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“Allowing a reality television program to film an ongoing murder investigation is a recipe for trouble” An interesting opinion yesterday from the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Seventh Circuit, in Hart v. Mannina; here’s an excerpt (some paragraph breaks added):Allowing a reality television program to film an ongoing murder investigation is a recipe for trouble. It is easy to imagine a detective with a looming television deadline... [...]

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