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Surf and Turf Law
New Maritime 4th Amendment Case from Eleventh Circuit – USA v. Zarabozo
New case from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals which deals with Fourth Amendment protections on vessels. The case is United States of America v. Guillermo Alfonzo Zarabozo and the original…
Employment Law Watch
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Public Employer’s Search of Employer-Provided Communication Devices
By Kimberly A. Craver, Joel S. Barras, Eugene K. Connors
Scott E. Blissman also contributed to this post. The U.S. Supreme Court held that a public employer’s review of transcripts of an employee’s text messages on an employer-issued pager constituted a…
Supreme Court Update
New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB (08-1457), Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Dep’t of Environmental Protection (08-1151), City of Ontario v. Quon (08-1332), Schwab v. Reilly (08-538) and Dillon v. United States (09-6338)
By Kim Rinehart
The June deluge continues, with the Court releasing four more decisions today. But this Update will bring you more on New Process Steel, L.P. v. NLRB (08-1457), as well as…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Supreme Court Finds Public Employer’s Search Motivated By Legitimate Work-Related Purposes Did Not Violate Fourth Amendment Protections Against Unreasonable Searches
Yesterday, the Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Ninth Circuit in City of Ontario v. Quon and unanimously decided in favor of a public employer that had engaged in…
California Employment Law Update
Client Alert: Ninth Circuit Reversed in Sexting Privacy Decision
By Proskauer Employment Law Group
Today, in a decision authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a case…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Notable dicta inQuoncase that might impact (now common?) sex offender restrictions
Main June 17, 2010Notable dicta in Quon case that might impact (now common?) sex offender restrictions In addition to the Dilloncrack retroactivity ruling (basics here and here), the other criminal…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Supreme Court Issues Quon Ruling
Breaking -- The Supreme Court has issued its decision in City of Ontario, California v. Quon, ruling unanimously that the police department did not violate an officer's Fourth Amendment rights…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Two-Member NLRB Decisions Are Improper; Public Employer Can View Employee Text Messages
The U.S. Supreme Court issued decisions in two important labor & employment law cases this morning. Because the cases are limited to some labor law issues and public employers, the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Supreme Court Reverses Employees’ Win in Texting Case (Quon)
The Supreme Court today released City of Ontario v. Quon, in which the Court (in a unanimous decision, with Scalia concurring) held that the government employer's search of employee text…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Texting Case
By Bret Cohen
A brief summary of the April 19, 2010 oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of City of Ontario v. Quon, a Fourth Amendment privacy case on…