Wis. moves toward ban on cellphone use while driving
Wisconsin is gradually taking steps to regulate cellphone use while driving, but an all-out ban is still a year or more away in the state Legislature.
Divided justices uphold cellphone tracking cases
The Wisconsin Supreme Court – while not always agreeing on the basis for its decisions – upheld two homicide cases Thursday where police found suspects by tracking their cellphones without a warrant.
Often-split high court agrees on privacy matters
U.S. Supreme Court justices found more common ground than usual this year, and nowhere was their unanimity more surprising than in a ruling that police must get a judge's approval before searching the cellphones of people they've arrested.
US justices limit cellphone searches after arrests
In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.
Cellphone search cases implicate broad privacy interests
Faced with a pair of cases raising the issue of warrantless searching of arrestees’ cellphones, the U.S. Supreme Court will again need to apply centuries-old constitutional principles to rapidly changing technologies.
Justice on Wheels travels to Sheboygan
The Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are taking their cases on the road again.
Phone privacy inches toward US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon address an issue it has carefully avoided until now: how much privacy Americans enjoy regarding their cellphones.
Cellphone search cases move closer to US Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon addresses an issue it has carefully avoided until now: Just how much privacy do Americans enjoy in the information contained within and emanating from their cellphones?
Courts divided over cellphone search cases for IP lawyers
At the trial of Michael Patino, who was charged in Rhode Island state court with the beating death of his girlfriend’s young son, prosecutors were armed with cellphone data and other documents obtained with valid search warrants.
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