Welcome to Justiceline, ThinkProgress Justice’s morning round-up of the latest legal news and developments. Remember to follow us on Twitter at @TPJustice.
- Ryan Grim and Mike Sacks explain how corporate-owned Justice Stephen Field forced corporate personhood into a Constitution that provides no support whatsoever for it.
- A federal court of appeals held that yes, a sherriff’s deputy’s privacy rights were violated when her supervisor shot a video of her after a shower and “showed it to others as a joke.” Disturbingly, a federal district judge previously ruled against the woman.
- The Michigan legislature is considering expanding the governor’s power to make political appointments to government jobs.
- The Mississippi ballot in November includes a voter ID initiative — meaning that the voters of the state will get to vote on whether they want to disenfranchise other voters.
- The Canadian Supreme Court considers that nation’s surprisingly broad ban on hate speech.
- A lesbian former servicemember filed a case seeking the full veterans benefits she would be entitled to if it wasn’t for an anti-gay law preventing her from getting them because her spouse is a woman.
- In a strip search case, Justice Antonin Scalia offers some deep thoughts on how much privacy newly arrested inmates should receive: jailers should be allowed to search people to find “any fleas or cooties or any other communicable disease before he is put into the general population.”
Previous in TP Justice
By clicking and submitting a comment I acknowledge the ThinkProgress Privacy Policy and agree to the ThinkProgress Terms of Use. I understand that my comments are also being governed by Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, or Hotmail’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policies as applicable, which can be found here.