In this case, Savana Redding, a 13-year old student in Arizona, appealed from a Magistrate Judge’s dismissal of her civil rights action, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against her school district and various individuals for conducting a warrantless strip-search on her during school hours and on school premises. The ...

Few criminal prosecutions in the last decade have generated more emotion and controversy than this case involving two former U.S. Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. They were convicted of a series of crimes arising out of their shooting on Feb. 17, 2005 of Oswaldo Aldrete-Davilla, as he ...

In Redding v. Safford United School District # 1, 504 F.3d 828 (9th Cir. Sept. 21, 2007) ("Redding I") (P&J, 08/27/07), a divided panel issued a controversial ruling upholding the dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit brought by Savana Redding, a 13-year old student, against her school district and various ...

Here the Court held that there are significant liberty interests at stake when a court orders a defendant to undergo forced medication (such as “chemical castration”) as a special condition of supervised release in sex offense cases.

Gordon Cope was arrested in September, 2003 by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department, ...

In Warshak v. U.S., 490 F.3d 455 (6th Cir. June 18, 2007) (“Warshak I”) (P&J, 06/04/07), a panel from the Sixth Circuit issued a landmark decision in which it affirmed an injunction prohibiting the Government from seizing the contents of personal email accounts maintained by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), without ...

For more than a decade, Congress and the courts have been battling over the permissible boundaries of legislation designed to outlaw child pornography on the Internet. The latest battle lines can trace their history to 1997, when the Supreme Court struck down several key provisions of the former Communications Decency ...

The initial tremors from the Supreme Court’s blockbuster Second Amendment decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. ___, 128 S.Ct. 2783 (June 28, 2008) (P&J, 06/02/08) have begun to die down; but now there seems to be a race among the courts, individual gun rights proponents, state legislatures ...