First Amendment News

The 4th Circuit declined to reopen the case of a former colonel in the North Carolina Army National Guard, who accused his colleagues of intercepting, reading and forwarding his emails while he was deployed in Iraq. Courthouse news July 23, 2010 By Annie Youderian The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., held that Col. Frederick Aikens failed to establish the “extraordinary circumstances” needed for his case to be reopened. Aikens had sued his former colleagues,

All Things Digital July 21, 2010 By John Murrell A multistate inquiry into what Google says was the inadvertent gathering of Wi-Fi data by its Street View cars now has 37 attorneys general on board and some specific questions. Connecticut AG Richard Blumenthal, who is spearheading the effort, sent a letter to the company todayasking who inserted the data collection code into the Street View software, whether the software had been tested to see if it snagged