The White House took a step Wednesday to try and limit any political fall-out of the seizure of phone records from the AP. By making overtures to renew a media shield law, the administration gets to have its beloved subpoena power and condemn it, too.
No court is really going to condone your behavior if you're caught flipping off the police as you fly by them on the highway, but from now on, if a cop tries to pull you over for it, tell him Judge Jon O. Newman sent you.
In a Google-funded report on the constitutional rights of an Internet search, UCLA law professor—and blogger—Eugene Volokh makes a lofty claim about the legal rights of any given Google search.
A judge has ruled that "liking" something on Facebook doesn't protect you under the First Amendment, which is bad news for at least one man in Virginia.
Life imitates art in the city's war on graffiti
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