Posted by Orin Kerr: Joined the Defense in *United States v. Lori Drew*: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_10_19-2008_10_25.shtml#1224566112
I have blogged before about the remarkable case of United States v. Lori Drew, the so-called "MySpace suicide" case, in which the government is claiming that it is a federal crime to violate Internet Terms of Service. At the time, I had explained why I thought the prosecution was terribly misguided, and I mentioned that I had provided some informal advice to the defense. In the last two weeks, I have gone one step further: I have formally joined Dean Steward, counsel for Lori Drew, as Drew's co-counsel. My participation is pro bono, based on my strong sense that the government's theory of the case poses a very real threat to civil liberties online. (Check out [1]my 2003 article on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to see why.) In any event, I don't plan to blog much about the case, but I did want to post some of the recently-filed legal documents in the case and just mention my involvement. The documents are below. 1. [2]Defense's Court Ordered Supplement to Motions, filed October 6. 2. [3]Government's Response to Court's September 23 Inquiry, filed October 6. 3. [4]Defense's Reply to Government's Response to Pre-Trial Conference Order, filed October 20. References 1. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=399740 2. http://volokh.com/files/Oct6filing.pdf 3. http://volokh.com/files/Oct6Govtfiling.pdf 4. http://volokh.com/files/Oct20filing.pdf _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list Volokh@lists.powerblogs.com http://lists.powerblogs.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh