I remember sitting with others lucky enough to hear oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the fall of 1987. It was an important case about educating young citizens, and the first that the court heard dealing with a high school newspaper. I also knew it mattered because the student newspaper is the voice
Illinois’ toughest in the nation eavesdropping law is partly unenforceable now that a Chicago prosecutor failed to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to revive the law. Citizens now can make an audio tape of Chicago police making a stop without fear of prosecution. The taping of police stops is part of an ACLU of Illinois
Venturing into a new frontier of First Amendment law, the Supreme Court gave constitutional protection to those seeking to use the vast stores of data and information collected by modern information technology. The court ruled 6-3 that Vermont could not stop pharmaceutical companies from obtaining data on doctors’ prescription-writing practices – data the companies used
The Indiana Supreme Court ruled last week that unlawful entry by police into a person’s home is fine. Not only that, but it is illegal for a homeowner to resist the unlawful entry. The case is the result of an argument between an Evansville man and his wife. The wife called 911 and police responded.
Conventional wisdom is taking hold in the news media and the political arena that the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision has opened the floodgates to big, secret money donations to conservative Republican candidates.
