We’ll discuss six important court cases dealing with emerging electronic communications (from telephones to radio to email), dealing with standards for privacy and obscenity. We’ll also discuss implications of the cases, the reasons I got interested in the first place, and why Terry v. Ohio, which has nothing whatsoever to do with electronic communications, is awesome.
Slides from the class (please note that the slides have been slightly edited and revised since then--in particular, since only the four privacy cases and Terry v. Ohio were covered in class, I cut out the obscenity cases. I covered those in More Highlights of Communications Law in March at Spark 2010.)