Monitoring Employee E-Mail: Efficient Workplaces vs. Employee Privacy

Employer monitoring of electronic mail constitutes an emerging area of the law that is clearly unsettled at this point in time. This iBrief demonstrates that the privacy rights of non public-sector employees are relatively unprotected by the federal and state constitutions, broad judicial interpretations of enacted privacy legislation favor legitimate employer-monitoring practices, and many of the elements of common law claims are difficult for employees to prove

The Business of Guns: The Second Amendment & Firearms Commerce

Does the Second Amendment protect commerce in firearms? The simple answer is: yes, to an extent. An individual’s right to possess and use a gun for self-defense in the home is black-letter law after District of Columbia v. Heller. The right to possess and use a gun requires the ability to obtain a gun, ammunition, and firearms training. Therefore, gun dealers, servicers, and training providers receive some constitutional protection as facilitators of their customers’ Second Amendment rights. Whether these constitutional rights belong to firearms-related businesses independently of their customers is unclear. The scope of the Second Amendment matters as recent, horrific gun violence has launched serious regulation of firearms commerce back into the spotlight. These regulations are constantly challenged and must be adjudicated using the precious little guidance the Supreme Court has provided

Religious Freedom and Closely Held Corporations: The Hobby Lobby Case and Its Ethical Implications

96 pages.Hobby Lobby and its quest for religious freedom captured the attention of a nation for a few moments in late June 2014. The country honed in on the Supreme Court as the Justices weighed the rights of an incorporated, profit-making entity run by devout individuals that objected to particular entitlements granted to women under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), particularly cost-free contraceptives

The Future of Privacy Policies: A Privacy Nutrition Label Filled with Fair Information Practices, 26 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 1 (2008)

The article looks at the threats accompanying online shopping, such as identity theft and aggregated data files. Such issues arise when companies carelessly lose laptops filled with unencrypted data or callously sell data on the open market with collected personally identifying information (PII). The article explains that although privacy policies are supposed to force companies to strengthen their privacy practices they are not always effective because companies often post inconspicuous, vague and legalese-filled policies. These ambiguous postings cause online shoppers to blindly submit PII and ignore privacy practices completely. The article proposes a solution to this problem through the standardization of labels to force all e-commerce homepages to conspicuously post their privacy practices. This would allow for consumers to make better informed decisions before submitting PII