US: DOJ firewalls, taint teams don’t protect 4th, 6th Amendment Rights
By Alan Dershowitz from Newsmax Many TV pundits are telling viewers not to worry about the government’s intrusion into possible lawyer/client privileged communications between President Trump and his lawyer, since prosecutors won’t get to see or use any privileged material….
SEC can’t get insider-trading defendants’ phone passwords
By P.J. D’Annunzio, From The Legal Intelligencer The smartphone passwords of two former Capital One data analysts accused of insider trading will remain a secret to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal judge has ruled in a case…
Husband alleged to have planted spyware on wife’s phone
By Ben Bedell, From New York Law Journal A Brooklyn matrimonial judge sent a sheriff to a husband’s home with an ex parte order to seize his iPhone and computers after lawyers for the wife submitted evidence showing her husband…
US State AGs wade into abortion video fight
By Ross Todd, From The Recorder SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. District Judge William Orrick III found himself in the crossfire of competing interests Tuesday morning when asked to interpret his own temporary restraining order blocking an anti-abortion group from releasing…
US Justice Dept. investigating missing IRS emails
From Newsmax The Justice Department said Wednesday that it was investigating the circumstances behind the disappearance of emails from a former senior Internal Revenue Service official, part of a broader criminal inquiry into whether the agency had targeted conservative groups…
