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... the fleeing suspect), it is now quite clear that police discretion about use of "deadly force" will be the controlling legal factor in future high-speed chase cases. Scott v. Harris, of course, is going to have a special place in the Court's overall jurisprudence for another reason: it marked the first time that the Court provided a link to a video in evidence so that the public could view it for itself -- here, the tape that the majority found so convincing as to what had ...

... sort." The justices took the unusual step - a first for the court - of posting on the court's Web site the 15-minute video of the chase, recorded by a camera mounted on the squad car's dashboard. * * * The lone dissenter, Justice John Paul Stevens, said ... was unreasonable. * * * Justice Scalia said the rule of the case was that "a police officer's attempt to terminate a dangerous high-speed car chase that threatens the lives of innocent bystanders does not violate the Fourth Amendment, even when ...

"Police Car Chase: Menace or Necessity? A review of police rights in high-speed chases goes to the Supreme Court." Jan Crawford Greenburg had this video segment on last night's broadcast of the ABC program World News Tonight. In addition, you can access a related written report at this link.

... which The Legal Broadcast Network was happy and proud to be part of are the Joe Jamail videos on the topic of structured settlements. For those of you who don't know who or what NSSTA is, it is The National ... difficult, you can also link directly to the LBN high speed video server and view the videos there. These links can also be embedded in your ... free of charge to you and your firm! Click here to view the first video of Joe Jamail speaking to clients about structured settlements, and then go here ...

... well in performance, and incur significant downtime when hardware upgrades for scalability are undertaken. Initially, storage systems are purchased with high performance controllers, but those same controllers become bottlenecks as more disks and clients are added. Many systems can expand cache to burst at high speed for a short period of time, but this is insufficient for video and the demands for long sustained performance. To view the complete article via Pivot3, ...

... and others find so problematic with the Supreme Court's decision in Scott v. Harris, the high-speed-chase video case. The majority too-readily accepted ... need for fact-finders. But if we stop to consider what the video does not show and the video's dependence on other evidence to tell a complete story ... any § 1983 action, in part because it anticipates the visceral reaction a jury will have to the video. The Critical Mass example shows that the opportunity and power of people to videotape the events ...

... Amendment when he deliberately rammed his car into that of a fleeing motorist who refused to pull over for speeding and instead sought to evade the police in a high-speed chase. The majority did not attempt to rebut the arguments of the single Justice ... could find that the fleeing driver did not pose a deadly risk to the public. Instead, the Court uploaded to its website a video of the chase, filmed from inside the pursuing police cruisers, and invited members of the public to make up their own ...

... - Fifty-seven percent of online adults have used the internet to watch or download video, and 19% do so on a typical day. The growing adoption of broadband combined with ... to pave the way for mainstream audiences to embrace online video viewing. Three-quarters of broadband users (74%) who enjoy high-speed connections at both home and work watch ... ; American Life Project's first major report on online video also shows how many video viewers have contributed to the viral and social nature of online ...

... Bashman: Here's a first -- A U.S. Supreme Court decision issued today has its own accompanying video: Talk about multimedia rulings! The Court's opinion today in Scott v. Harris, No. 05-1631 -- a dispute about the lawfulness of a high-speed police chase captured on video -- appears online at the Supreme Court's web site with this 91.7 MB RealPlayer video file. No word yet from the Court on whether the volume of U.S. Reports in which this decision will appear will ...

... taken up the case. They explained their reasoning, and in an unusual step, they referred to the victim video in the Kelly case and indicated it had been put up on the Court's Web site. * * * ... first time the Court has gone multimedia on its Web site. In April 2007, it posted the police video of a high-speed car chase that was important in the Court's resolution of Scott v. Harris, a Section 1983 civil rights case brought by a person severely injured in an accident resulting from the chase. Those ...