FBI Ties Florida Naval Base Shooting to al-Qaida
The gunman in the deadly attack on a Florida military base last year had significant ties to al-Qaida, the FBI said Monday.
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Cellphone Search
The Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that a warrant permitting the search of a woman’s cell phone was constitutionally overbroad, given modern phones’ storage capacities and ability and hold the “privacies of life.” The woman, a university professor, was charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
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Mississippi Court Refuses to Toss 12-Year Sentence for Contraband Cellphone
An attorney for a Mississippi man sentenced to 12 years for possessing a cellphone in jail said Friday he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, after the state’s high court refused to reconsider the punishment.
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Claims of Shoddy Cricket 4G Service Headed for Trial
Cricket Wireless will go to trial on claims it deceptively lured customers into buying phones with lousy 4G service – but those customers must be prepared to “stand and deliver” on those claims in court.
Read moreCellphone Location Info
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that the seizure of a man’s cellphone records that police used in their investigation of his murder case was unreasonable and the lower court must now determine whether the man, convicted of beating and stabbing his former girlfriend’s stepfather to death, was harmed by the failure to suppress those records.
Read moreTorture
A former employee sued BYD Electronic America Corp. in federal court, claiming it aided and abetted his torture and beating in China in a dispute between BYD and a competing cellphone parts maker.
Read moreTop NJ Court Mines 5th Amendment for Password Privacy
Attorneys argued before New Jersey’s highest court Tuesday that people should not be compelled to unlock their phones for law enforcement.
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Texas Court Denies New Trial in Murder-for-Hire Case
A Texas plastic surgeon serving life in prison for a murder-for-hire plot does not deserve a new trial even if cellphone data showing he met with the hitman months before the murder was improperly admitted as evidence, Texas’ highest criminal court ruled Wednesday.
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High Court Spurns Appeals on Texting Suicide, Topless Beachgoers
A woman who sent her boyfriend text messages urging him to kill himself failed Monday to secure a review of her conviction by the U.S. Supreme Court. Three women who went topless at the beach were also turned down.
Read moreCanadian Officials Accidentally Push Nuke Alert to Millions
People throughout the Canadian province of Ontario awoke Sunday to an alarming alert of an “incident” at a nuclear plant just east of Toronto — only to later be told the message was a mistake.
Read moreCellphone Sentence
A man was properly sentenced to 12 years in custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for possessing a cell phone in a jail where he was being held on a misdemeanor charge, the state’s supreme court ruled. The man claims his sentence is “grossly disproportionate” to the crime but it falls within the statutory range of three to 15 years.
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Missouri Court Orders NFL Owners to Hand Over Phone Records
National Football League team owners and other high-level league officials will have to turn over eight years of cellphone records as part of a lawsuit over the Rams’ move to Los Angeles, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled.
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People Puzzled by Wave of Peculiar Texts
If you woke up Thursday to a weird text that seemed totally out of place, you aren’t alone. A mysterious wave of missives swept America’s phones overnight, delivering largely unintelligible messages from friends, family and the occasional ex.
Read moreAT&T Pays $60 Million to Settle FTC Data-Throttling Suit
AT&T will pay $60 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission claiming the telecom giant misled millions of smartphone customers by promising unlimited data plans before slowing down their data speeds.
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Trump’s Phone Records Back Accuser’s Claim, Lawyer Says
Donald Trump’s cellphone records show a call to a former “Apprentice” contestant on a day when she says he subjected her to unwanted groping, according to a court filing.
Read moreDeceptive Trade
New York City sued T-Mobile USA, MetroPCS New York et al. in New York County Supreme Court, claiming they sell used phones as new, charge for fake taxes and unasked-for services, enroll users in financing plans without consent and misrepresent a “30-day guarantee.”
Read moreRF Radiation
Owners of cellphones made by Apple and Samsung accuse the tech giants in a putative class action filed Monday of hiding the fact their smartphones emit radiofrequency radiation sometimes 500% higher than levels recommended by scientists.
Read moreIPhones
A federal judge dismissed with prejudice a class action that claims Apple products are vulnerable to hacking, as plaintiffs did not show that their iPhones diminished in value or were degraded in performance.
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