Weekend Legal Links ... Late Friday, the NCAA removes name-likeness release from student-athlete forms in midst of major class-action lawsuit against college athletics governing body ... As many as 50,000 convicted drug felons in the U.S. are all eligible to have their sentences reduced or overturned in wake of reformed drug laws ... Poll reflects how Americans feel about SCOTUS recent cellphone privacy ruling -- and they feel pretty darn good about it With a federal judge still deliberating about how to rule in a class-action lawsuit against the NCAA concerning the use of college athletes names and likenesses, the association finally eliminated a much-debated name-and-likeness release from the set of forms Division I athletes sign annually: usat.ly/1nUD8yN The U.S. Sentencing Commission decided Friday that nearly 50,000 federal drug offenders currently in prison are eligible for reduced sentences, a move that could flood the nation’s courts and prosecutors with applications for leniency and allow them to have their cases reviewed again by a judge: wapo.st/1tfsi6U This story from Digital Constitution delves into how U.S. citizens feel about the ruling in Riley v. California case, which resulted in a unanimous view that police need a warrant to search someone’s cell phone. And as it turns out, Americans overwhelmingly agree that the email and pictures we now store in the cloud deserve the same Constitutional protection weve traditionally had for things kept in our homes: bit.ly/1rpKavL
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:00:01 +0000
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