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The Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee recently met and voted to amend Senate Bill 1036, expanding the ignition-interlock requirements. Ignition-interlock devices are essentially breathalyzers installed in cars. They require the driver to exhale into the device to show that the driver is not intoxicated when starting the car or while driving. If the driver refuses to […]

The usage of cell phones has made it easier than ever for us to be tracked.  Even if a phone has been destroyed, it may have left behind evidence that investigators can use to piece together where it, and its owner, have been. Whenever a phone call is made, there is a two-way communication between […]

Separate bills, each banning what is commonly known as “Revenge Porn,” have passed the Pennsylvania House of Representative and the Senate. The bills would make it a crime to distribute a photo or video of someone “who is nude or explicitly engaged in a sexual act to the view of a third party for no legitimate […]

In Riley v. California, 537 U.S. __ (2014), a surprisingly unanimous 9-0 ruling, the Supreme Court added additional privacy protection to American’s cell phones.  Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Roberts held that police need a warrant to search the cell phone of someone who is under arrest.  This result greatly pleased privacy activists, who […]

In Bond v. United States, the United States Supreme Court threw out the 2007 conviction of a Lansdale woman for possession of a chemical weapon.  Back in 2006, Carol Bond discovered that her friend was pregnant and that her husband was the father.  To get revenge, she stole 10-chloro-10H-phenoxarsine from her job and ordered potassium […]