Understanding Lakey: Abortion Rights and the Right to Know
February 11, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ziegler of Saint Louis University School of Law says that the increasing popularity of state regulations requiring doctors to perform ostensibly informative procedures prior to an abortion represent a revision of Supreme Court precedent which may result in changes to Firs....... [more] 
House failed to pass Patriot Act extension
February 8, 2012
On February 8, 2011, a bill renewing three provisions of the USA Patriot Act failed to secure the two-thirds majority in the US House of Representatives required to renew the Act. The expiring provisions allow roving surveillance, compel production of business records and "other tangible things" und....... [more]
German high court rejected police computer hacking efforts
February 5, 2012
On February 5, 2010, the German Federal Court of Justice ruled that police in Germany were not permitted to secretly access computer and Internet data stored on criminal suspects' computers without proper authorization. The Court held that police hacking is illegal because no legal framework current....... [more]
US House voted to extend surveillance law
January 29, 2012
On January 29, 2008, the US House of Representatives voted to extend the Protect America Act of 2007 for an additional two weeks past its original February 1, 2008 expiration date. The extension was a compromise to give the US Senate time to craft a provision granting civil immunity to telecommunica....... [more]
Belarus Internet Law Denies Freedoms and Mandates Monitoring
January 26, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Johann Bihr, Director of the Press Desk for Europe and Central Asia at Reporters Without Borders, says a new Belarusian law not only limits the online freedoms of individuals, but also creates harsh penalties for Internet providers, all in a government effort to exert more con....... [more]
Vague and Outdated FCC Indecency Policy Must be Altered
January 21, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeremy Lipschultz of the University of Nebraska at Omaha says that in FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., it seems likely that the Supreme Court will not force the Federal Communications Commission to alter its vague and subjective indecency policy and will not overturn the....... [more]
US House postpones hearings on Internet bill SOPA
January 14, 2012
Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced Saturday that the US House of Representatives will postpone hearings on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a day after the bill's main sponsor Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) agreed to remove the highly contested Domain Name System (DNS) blocking provi....... [more]
DNS Filtering to Fight Internet Piracy Violates the First Amendment
January 13, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Lauren Mack, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Class of 2012, is the Copyright Chair for the Cardozo Intellectual Property Law Society. She argues that two proposed pieces of legislation that seek to curb Internet piracy through the use of DNS filtering violate the First Amend....... [more]
Supreme Court hears arguments on FCC indecency policy
January 11, 2012
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Tuesday. In FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., the court heard arguments on whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) current indecency enforcement regime violates the First or Fifth Amendments to the US Constitution by being to....... [more]
Diversity of Online Gambling Landscape Creates Ambiguity
January 10, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist Patrick Fleming, Litigation Support Director at the Poker Players Alliance, says that the recent decision by the Department of Justice to permit online non-sports gambling has bolstered the legitimacy of Internet betting, but the gambling landscape remains a patchwork of many....... [more]
Belarus Internet restrictions take effect
January 6, 2012
Internet restrictions passed in February 2010 are set to go into effect in Belarus on Friday, amid international criticism. The law creates several tiers of limitations on the Internet. Anyone who owns a shared connection, or a CyberCafe, must monitor all users to insure that they do not visit a "bl....... [more]
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