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A media coalition has successfully convinced a court to unseal a search warrant affidavit used to search a journalist's home for evidence about a missing iPhone prototype.
News organizations are asking a state judge to unseal the search warrant affidavit that led to police searching an editor's phone for evidence about a missing iPhone prototype, The Los Angeles Times and Wired reported.
Police raided a California online editor’s home and seized computers and servers after he published articles about the forthcoming version of the Apple iPhone, TheNew York Times Media Decoder blog reported.
The founder of the gossip network TMZ said this week he is outraged that Los Angeles authorities obtained his telephone records during an investigation into who leaked news of Mel Gibson's 2006 arrest for drunken driving, LA Observed reported.
The Obama Administration has taken a first step toward restricting the laptop search policy that subjected journalists' confidential information to scrutiny by border officials, but in the end still defends the practice.
Police in Phoenix searched and confiscated items from the home of a blogger who runs a Web site that is critical of the police department.
According to blogger Jeff Pataky, who runs the site BadPhoenixCops.com, the police confiscated his laptop, wireless router, and paper files including tax documents and bills, when they searched his home in mid-March. Those items have not been returned. Pataky said the officers had a search warrant.
A federal court yesterday ordered the release of search records related to the 2001 “Amerithrax” investigations, recognizing for the first time in the District of Columbia Circuit a First Amendment right of access to warrant materials after an investigation has concluded.
An Illinois state prosecutor is refusing to allow public access to search warrants and related documents, despite an opinion from the state attorney general making clear that the documents are public records, the Belleville News-Democratreported.
A New Jersey law school and a Portuguese-language newspaper filed suit against the Department of Homeland Security in federal court Monday to get information about raids on immigrant homes in the Garden State.
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