Corrected: An opinion issued last week by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel could hamper the work of inspectors general for federal agencies, according to critics.
A federal appeals court has ruled that the former chairman of an airport board in Kentucky had no expectation of privacy in an inadvertent “pocket dial” call.
A federal bill that is backed by Yelp is designed to protect online commenters and others who speak out about matters of public concern when they face meritless defamation suits.
A Seattle law requiring garbage collectors to check trash cans for composting violations is being challenged in a suit filed on behalf of residents by the Pacific Legal Foundation, a…
Federal judges and judiciary employees have been alerted that they may have been among the victims of a data breach, initially revealed last month, that affected millions of federal employees.
Just as new technology created issues of digital privacy, scientific experiments linking animal brains are raising new issues of neural privacy and legal responsibility.
A Nevada attorney’s lawsuit against blogger Legal Eagle over posts to Wild Wild Law made in 2008 and 2009 was dismissed earlier this year on statute of limitations grounds.
A Florida lawyer hoping to unmask an anonymous critic on Avvo isn’t entitled to identifying information absent any evidence supporting her defamation claim, an appeals court in Washington state has…
A woman who secretly made a video of alleged sex harassment at work can’t sue a law firm accused of releasing it to the media, an appeals court ruled last…
A Virginia jury last week awarded an unidentified patient $500,000, including $200,000 in punitive damages, because of defamatory comments made by his anesthesiologist while he was sedated for a colonoscopy.
A political activist who sued a blogging prosecutor failed to establish he acted under color of state law and cannot bring a civil rights claim under Section 1983, a federal…
Federal prosecutors and the FBI are investigating allegations that front-office officials with the St. Louis Cardinals hacked into a computer database of the Houston Astros in 2013.
A Georgia judge has disqualified two lawyers who represented a woman accused of secretly making a video of her sexual encounter with the chairman of Waffle House—with the lawyers’ encouragement.