Press and Information. CREDIT CARDS RULINGS. GPS Tracking: Supreme Court Debates Privacy Limits On Police. WASHINGTON -- The justices appear poised to go big or go home when it comes to protecting privacy rights against digital intrusion.
Antoine Jones, a nightclub owner in Washington, D.C., is challenging his conviction for drug trafficking, asserting that the police violated his Fourth Amendment rights when, without a valid warrant or his consent, officers placed a GPS device on his car to track his movements on public streets. In taking United States v. Jones, the Supreme Court signaled its interest in seriously revisiting -- and , after almost three decades -- the question of whether advances in technology alter an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy.
During oral argument Tuesday morning, Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Michael Dreeben argued that the GPS-assisted, 24-hour surveillance of Jones by the police over the course of 28 days was no different than the rudimentary tracking by beeper that the Court blessed in a 1983 decision. But that hardly took the pressure off Dreeben. LANDMARK !!! Charges Against Food Not Bombs Activists Dropped. » Man Faces Life In Jail For Recording Police Alex Jones. Every other case involving people arrested for filming cops has been thrown out of court, but media promulgates hoax that recording police is illegal Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com Wednesday, August 31, 2011 41-year old Illinois mechanic Michael Allison faces life in jail for recording police officers after authorities hit him with eavesdropping charges based on the hoax that it is illegal to film cops, a misnomer that has been disproved by every other case against people filming police officers being thrown out of court.
The state of Illinois is trying to charge Allison with five counts of wiretapping, each punishable by four to 15 years in prison. Allison refused a plea deal which would have seen him serve no jail time but would reinforce the hoax that it is illegal to film police officers, as well as acting as a chilling effect to prevent other Americans from filming cases of police brutality. Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. BOMBSHELL – Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules That Most Foreclosure Sales From Previous 5 Years Are VOID.
Source – Amnova On Oct. 18th, 2011 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court handed down their decision in the FRANCIS J.
BEVILACQUA, THIRD vs. PABLO RODRIGUEZ – and in a moment, essentially made foreclosure sales in the commonwealth over the last five years wholly void. However, some of the more polite headlines, undoubtedly in the interest of not causing wide spread panic simply put it “SJC puts foreclosure sales in doubt” or “Buyer Can’t Sue After Bad Foreclosure Sale.” In essence, the ruling upheld that those who had purchased foreclosure properties that had been illegally foreclosed upon (which is virtually all foreclosure sales in the last five years), did not in fact have title to those properties.
The Massachusetts SJC is one of the most respected high courts in the country, other supreme courts look to these decisions for guidance, and would find it difficult to rule any other way in their own states. Here are the key components of the Bevilacqua case: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.