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An intriguing week on tap for SCOTUS and sentencing fans

By Douglas A. Berman

The Supreme Court is back from its latest break today, and this SCOTUSblog post details the Justices' basic agenda for hearing arguments.  Of the four arguments on tap for this week, at least two should be of special interest for criminal justice fans: City of Ontario v. Quon (08-1332) ? right of privacy for public employee?s text messages by government-issued pagers Dolan v. United States (09-367) ? federal judges? power to order restitution for crime victims Because Dolan involves a technical timing issue, I am not expecting a big ruling in a case that obviously deals directly with sentencing matters.  In contrast, though Quon involves at Fourth Amendment issue, I am expecting the Supreme Court's first foray into the digital world to have inevitable echo effects into a lot of cybercrime and punishment matters...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).