Yesterday, I blogged about the lawsuit by Marc Rotenberg, former head of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, against Politico and Protocol, over a story that discussed Rotenberg's positive COVID test result, and Rotenberg's not immediately informing his staff about the test. [read post]

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INTRODUCTION On September 28, 2004, the United States Supreme Court granted a property owner’s application for leave from a Connecticut Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the community’s taking of property with the specified purpose of creating jobs by selling the property to a private industrial user.1 As the petitioner land owners in Kelo express in their brief requesting leave, the critical question for the Court to determine is whether a taking for purely… [read post]

Many state and local officials host social media sites and use them to converse with followers on matters related to their governmental responsibilities, among other things.[1]  Not surprisingly, many choose to block from their sites certain members of the public they find disagreeable.[2] Being disagreeable, or at least in disagreement with such actions, blocked followers sometimes sue alleging that their exclusion violates the First Amendment.[3]  One of the most notable examples was a… [read post]