Bombing Libya 100 Days and Counting
The International Criminal Court decided this morning to issue a warrant for the arrests of Col. Muammar Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, and Gadhafi's intelligence chief, on charges of crimes...
View ArticlePolice and Cell Phones: Defining Unreasonable Search and Seizure
Today, the Supreme Court will hear two back-to-back cases that could have serious consequences for the way we think about privacy and communication in modern life.The Court will consider a new question...
View ArticleYour Guide to Court Decisions on Aereo and Cell-Phones
Today the Supreme Court issued two major decisions—at the center of each case was the technology that has come to define our lives.In a unanimous decision, the Court ruled that police cannot search...
View ArticleOfficer's Death Puts Focus on Suspected Shooter's Warrant
The shooting of a police officer in Brooklyn on Monday is raising questions about why the alleged killer was never picked up by authorities in North Carolina despite being wanted for a summer shooting...
View ArticleRiding Along on the DUI Run With Billings Police
Just before midnight, Billings Police Officer Marc Snider witnessed a young woman drive the wrong way through downtown and then roll over the median in a bank parking lot. He stopped her on the wrong...
View ArticleA Chance To Get Low-Level Offenses Dismissed
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is giving people a chance to resolve outstanding summons warrants at a church, instead of in a court room.People can turn themselves in to local clergy and law...
View ArticleData Collection Trade-Offs
In Philip Bobbitt's 2008 book Terror and Consent: The Wars for the 21st Century, he argues that data collection is an incredibly useful tool that’s fundamentally misunderstood by the public. Brooke...
View ArticleCity District Attorneys Purge Almost 645,000 Old Warrants
Four of the city's five district attorneys went to court in their respective boroughs on Wednesday morning to dismiss nearly 645,000 warrants that were at least 10 years old, in the city's largest...
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