The US Supreme Court unanimously decided that foreign political organizations and multinational corporations cannot be sued for the torture or extrajudicial killing of persons abroad under an anti-torture law passed in 1992. The law only gives people the right to sue “an individual,” “who acted under the authority of a foreign nation,” according to the [...]

Update: Michigan Department of Corrections Abandons Routine Body Cavity Searches A consortium of civil liberties, religious and health organizations and experts including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are challenging a strip-search procedure prisoners in Michigan’s Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility (WHV) are forced to submit to that is nothing less than sexual sadism by [...]

Pfc. Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade in March (photo: Bradley Manning Support Network) A ruling by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has narrowed the reach of a computer fraud law that the government had been using to prosecute workers who steal from company computers, according to Reuters. The decision found [...]

(update below) As widely reported yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 decision that officials could strip-search individuals being admitted to jail, even if they had committed minor offenses.  Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote in the decision that he was not willing to “second-guess the judgments of correction officials.” Those concerned about Americans’ rights [...]

Public records from local and state law enforcement agencies reveal a significant number of law enforcement agencies in the United States use cell phone tracking even if they do not have a warrant or probable cause to engage in such surveillance. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which requested and obtained the records, finds the [...]

(update below) The Supreme Court handed down a victory for civil liberties in January when it ruled police could not attach GPS devices to a suspect’s car for tracking without a search warrant. Now, FBI director Robert Mueller is troubled and he wants everyone to know the Court’s decision to uphold privacy presents a distinct [...]

Free live streaming by Ustream Above is the livestream for Occupy Pittsburgh’s upcoming “Occupy the Courts” action at 4 pm EST. I will be there livestreaming and will go until my battery dies. [See bottom of post for description of planned action.] Occupy SCOTUS has been unfolding right now at 3:40 pm EST. OccupyFreedomLa is [...]