Another 5-4 close one. Who needs the World Cup when you got Supreme Court justices brawling it out over the Constitution? (OK, I do, also). Anyway, in another contentious split decision, the left side gets a rare win as “Swing Man” Kennedy joins Judge Ginsburg’s opinion in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, decided yesterday. Quick …
Monthly Archive: June 2010
Jun 28 2010
Supreme Court Opens The Door to Undo Gun Laws
Last Year, the Supremes decided District of Columbia v. Heller. That case overturned years of prior Supreme Court rulings that said States were allowed to restrict handgun use more than the federal government because the 2nd Amendment really only applied to the Federal Government and not each State. Heller said instead that the 2nd Amendment …
Jun 21 2010
Supreme Court Does Not Settle Issue Over Privacy of Work Emails and Texts
We all do it. We send personal messages via text and email from our work computers, cell phones, blackberries, etc. Like the “personal phone call” employers usually don’t mind except when the privilege gets abused. But unlike the personal phone call, the email or text does not go away. It stays forever lodged on your …
Jun 16 2010
One Blood Sport Approved While Another is Curtailed by NY Senate
So the NY State Senate was busy today. It approved Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting in NY state and also approved No-fault Divorce. It would have been nice if they also agreed on our long-overdue budget but , Hey you can only ask for so much. From my point of view both of these were …
Jun 15 2010
Caution: Your Website Images May Be Illegal!
One of the other websites I am associated with extortionletterinfo.com, is devoted to the issue of digital imagery on the web and the copyright attached to them. A number of the world’s largest digital image warehouses, notably Getty Images, Masterfile and Corbis, have begun asserting claims for images controlled by them and used by …