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...judge to apply U.S. law to the two programmers, Matthew Skala of Canada and Eddie Jansson of Sweden, even though the court plainly had no jurisdiction over the defendants or their activities. They also sought orders from the U.S. judge requiring Internet service providers in Canada and Sweden to suppress Skala and Jansson's websites, even though those service providers did no business in Massachusetts or anywhere else in the U.S. and were also not subject to the jurisdiction of an American federal court...
...school officials. Supporters of the notification process want the information to be made as widely available as possible - advocating, for instance, its posting on the Internet. They also point out that the psychosexual impulses that lead people to commit sex offenses against children are very difficult to cure or suppress, leading to a high rate of repeat offenses. The defenders argue that by serving their sentences the offenders have, in effect, paid their debt to society. They also make the case that wide distribution of personal information such as pictures and addresses could lead to acts of retribution. The issue...
...good idea to laugh at fellow participants in an anger-management class. But it is hard for classmates to suppress their giggles as "Lou" tells his story. Last year, Lou says, he discovered that his wife's Internet tastes ran to the louche--specifically, sex chat-room sites. Worse, he suspected that she had begun to date a guy she had met online. The man even phoned their house. Lou, a round-faced immigrant with a soft voice and tortoise-shell eyeglasses, tried to persuade his spouse to be faithful to him. She wouldn...
...crime as a pretext for stopping someone whom they found suspicious without an articulable basis for that suspicion. Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia held that when a police officer actually arrests a driver for a traffic violation and then searches the vehicle, a Fourth Amendment-based motion to suppress evidence of other crimes will not prevail even if--based on an objective standard--police officers do not usually arrest people for that kind of misdemeanor...
...Rwanda and Zaire during the unsupervised ferocities of the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis and the regional chaos it set in motion, including what may have been the largest refugee exodus in history. Two years later he went to Chechnya when Russia made its first ham-fisted attempt to suppress the breakaway republic that it has recently bombed into submission again. He went to Bosnia and Kosovo, where words have failed over and again to convey the sheer sadism of what neighbor did to neighbor...