New York Times - free registration required Editorial The Supreme Court on Privacy. Short term link The Supreme Court heard arguments last week on one of several important federalism cases that will go a long way toward defining this session of the court. The case involved a constitutional challenge to the 1994 Driver's Privacy Protection Act and, more broadly, to Congress's authority to legislate national solutions to problems that are truly national in scope.

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MenWeb - Men's Issues: When is it a Felony to Talk about Zoom Skis?. A King County District Judge today issued a far-reaching order that may be a first-ever precedent in cyber-space, banning a man from talking about Zoom skis, or any other skiing-related topic, in the Usenet newsgroup Rec. Skiing.Alpine. A motion to limit the order to ban off-topic posts was denied.