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2004-12-14 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Fred 2004-12-14 10:59:01 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I was getting nowhere trying to google this guy... and whaddya know? His name was misspelled... he's Durke G. Thompson - and he has a history of interesting decisions. Here's a couple of articles about him... -1- -2-...

Posted by .com 2004-12-14 1:01:10 PM|| 2004-12-14 1:01:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Wait a minute. The judge may have made some really awful decisions before (if the people who wrote what .com linked to are right), but that doesn't necessarily mean he's always wrong.

The Interstate Commerce clause, while wildly misapplied to federal laws since 1940, has been often used to knock down state laws. It depends on the exact wording of the Maryland law. If it punished someone sending an eMail from New York to Virginia, CC'ed to Maryland, it's a slam-dunk that the NY-VA eMail is not touchable by MD law. Now, whether the NY-MD eMail is allowable is another matter, I am not a constitutional law scholar.

No. I think this might well be appealed up the chain all the way.

Posted by jackal 2004-12-14 2:50:00 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-12-14 2:50:00 PM|| Front Page Top

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