Beck v. McDonald (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-029-17, 26 pp.) (Diaz, J.) No. 15-1395(L), Feb. 6, 2017; USDC at Columbia, S.C. (Terry Wooten, C.J.) 4th Cir. Holding: Two veterans who were treated at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center do not have ...
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Read More »WASHINGTON (AP) — An extraordinary legal fight is brewing with major privacy implications for millions of cellphone users after a federal magistrate ordered Apple Inc. to help the FBI hack into an iPhone used by the gunman in the San ...
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Read More »NEW YORK (AP) — The bulk collection of Americans’ phone records by the government exceeds what Congress has allowed, a federal appeals court said Thursday as it asked Congress to step in and decide how best to balance national security ...
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Read More »LOS ANGELES (AP) — They come from different worlds — the buttoned-down political culture of Washington and the entrepreneurial, socks-optional, let’s-do-this-faster ethos of Silicon Valley. But where those worlds overlap, that’s where you find President Barack Obama and a wealthy ...
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A legal Listserv is supposed to be like Las Vegas. What happens on the Listserv stays on the Listserv. But in reality, candid conversations among lawyers on Listservs get leaked just as easily as scandals travel across the Sin City ...
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At a time when government surveillance of online communications is a sensitive subject, lawyers are divided on where to draw the line when it comes to their own secretive research into jurors’ Internet activities.
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Four of South Carolina’s most prominent trial lawyers are facing potential liability for millions of dollars in damages in the wake of the June 17 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to broaden the protections afforded personal information compiled by state departments of motor vehicles.
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When tragedy strikes, rational judgment becomes vulnerable to passions of anger, sadness and fear. Any grade-schooler knows that an accused in the United States is innocent until proven guilty. But read the news after revelation of a horrific crime, and the ordering of American values seems fuzzy.
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Read More »A Myrtle Beach man’s lawsuit against a Horry County police officer and state trooper is heavy on soap-opera drama and light on legal substance, a U.S. District Court judge in Florence has ruled. The plaintiff claimed that his wife was having an affair with the officer and that the two lovers conspired to have him arrested for drunken driving. His wife had told the officer that her husband was getting drunk at a bar and would eventually be driving home.
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Read More »In a case that had the justices questioning just how far the expectation of privacy extends in a world of ever-evolving technologies, the U.S. Supreme Court considered last week whether the police’s use of a warrantless GPS tracking device on a suspect’s car violated the Fourth Amendment. There is a chance that the justices could rule broadly on the issue. For example, the court could hold that the installation of the device did not even constitute a search, allowing the court to skip the expectation-of-privacy analysis altogether. But at oral arguments, the justices seemed to go the opposite route, considering in detail the implications of a world where information from high-tech devices could be used by the government to track individuals’ every move.
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