Speaking Out: A group of state judges, judicial hopefuls and an anti-abortion organization wants the U.S. Supreme Court to examine restrictions on campaign speech by judicial candidates, The National Law Journal reports today.
Wiretaps: The defendants in the Galleon securities civil fraud case won a victory in a federal appeals court, which said the Securities and Exchange Commission is not entitled to thousands of wiretap conversations that the government turned over to the defendants in a parallel criminal prosecution, The New York Law Journal reports via Law.com. Judge Gerard Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit said the trial judge exceeded his jurisdiction in ordering the disclosure of the conversations.
Privacy: A freshman Rutgers University student whose roommate secretly recorded a sexual encounter killed himself, The Wall Street Journal reports. The roommate, Dharun Ravi, and another student, are charged with invasion of privacy for using a webcam to transmit the video. The New York Times story is here.
Under Fire: Practitioners are urging the American Bar Association to make available for free the group's ethics opinions. The National Law Journal reports that some practitioners argue the organization has a responsibility to make its opinions available for free online.
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