Digital Justice
Vargas v. Facebook, No. 21-16499 (9th Cir.)
All Rise Trial & Appellate filed an amicus brief on behalf of the ACLU, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and Free Press, explaining why digital redlining on social media violates civil rights statutes in the same manner as off-line discrimination throughout history. It also addresses the proper application and scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Opiotennione v. Bozzuto, No. 21-1919 (4th Cir.)
All Rise Trial & Appellate filed an amicus brief on behalf of the ACLU, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the National Fair Housing Alliance, and the Washington Lawyers Committee, explaining why digital redlining on social media violates civil rights statutes in the same manner as off-line discrimination throughout history.
Commonwealth v. Green, 6 MAP 2021 (Pa.)
All Rise Trial & Appellate filed a brief on behalf of Upturn in a case addressing the allowable scope of cellphone searches by law enforcement. The brief explains why powerful mobile device forensic tools allow virtually unfettered access to a person’s life, and why courts must impose limits on the scope of such searches to protect individual liberties and comport with historical protections from the warrant requirement and other search doctrines.
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Connecticut v. Smith, SC 20600 (Ct.)
All Rise Trial & Appellate filed a brief on behalf of Upturn in a case addressing the allowable scope of cellphone searches by law enforcement. The brief explains why powerful mobile device forensic tools allow virtually unfettered access to a person’s life, and why courts must impose limits on the scope of such searches to protect individual liberties and comport with historical protections from the warrant requirement and other search doctrines.
Update: the Court has unanimously ruled that searches of entire cellphones do not comply with the constitution.
Gonzalez v. Google, No. 21-1333 (U.S.)
All Rise Trial & Appellate file an amicus brief on behalf of Integrity Institute and AlgoTransparency, non-profit organizations formed by former employees of big technology companies, urging the Court to issue a narrow decision in its first case to consider Section 230 of the CDA. The brief relies heavily on the groups’ unique technical expertise, and emphasizes the difference between illegality stemming from platforms’ conduct, and illegality stemming from underlying third-party content.