TFred
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Virginiaplanter posted a link to this SCOTUSBlog entry for the first case listed, but about 3/4 of the page down they cover another case the court took yesterday about "Informational Privacy."
I wonder if this might have any affect on Stop and Identify laws, or sterile open carry?
http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/03/court-to-rule-on-funeral-pickets/
The text of the blog for this case:
ETA: More information can be found on this case (prior decisions and briefs) from this page: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/03/petitions-to-watch-conference-of-3-5-10/
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Virginiaplanter posted a link to this SCOTUSBlog entry for the first case listed, but about 3/4 of the page down they cover another case the court took yesterday about "Informational Privacy."
I wonder if this might have any affect on Stop and Identify laws, or sterile open carry?
http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/03/court-to-rule-on-funeral-pickets/
The text of the blog for this case:
TFredIn another case bearing on claims of privacy, the Court Monday added to its decision docket a case involving the broad issue of whether the Constitution protects a “right of informational privacy” — that is, a form of Fifth Amendment protection against government demands for personal information. The Supreme Court mentioned such a right in a 1977 decision, and has seldom mentioned it since. A group of workers employed by California Institute of Technology, and working under contract at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory outside of Pasadena, won a court order against some of the government demands for information about their private lives — part of background checks similar to the security reviews that regular federal employees often undergo.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration took the issue to the Supreme Court in NASA v. Nelson, et al. (09-530). The petition argued that the lower court ruling not only jeopardizes the government’s authority to get information about contract employees, but also about its capacity even to demand information from its own agencies’ employees. “The ramifications of the decision below are potentially dramatic,” the petition contended.
ETA: More information can be found on this case (prior decisions and briefs) from this page: http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/03/petitions-to-watch-conference-of-3-5-10/
Scroll down to National Aeronautics and Space Administration v. Nelson