The Supreme Court has ruled that the police must obtain a warrant before installing GPS-enabled tracking devices on the vehicles of criminal suspects. There's a good summary of the ruling over at the Washington Post. The top-line takeaway from the decision, made today, is that the Court has held that using a GPS device to track a vehicle constitutes a search in the Fourth Amendment sense of the word. Read More

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee held a hearing yesterday on bipartisan legislation, introduced by Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), that would require the Supreme Court to televise its ... Read More

Heh, an important public official says something dopey about Twitter, and this time doing the honors is Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. "I have a tweeting thing," said Breyer when he was questioned as ... Read More

Next week, Proposition 8 will return to the federal Court of Appeals — and the airwaves. Last month, the panel of judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave consent to televise Dec. 6 oral arguments in ... Read More

Photo credit: Brandon Cirillo Big doings at the Supreme Court. Well, minor doings, but when it comes to the adoption of technologies in the high court, our scale shrinks. Read More