who really runs America?
Thanks to disclosures made by Edward Snowden, Americans have learned that their email records are not necessarily safe from the National Security Agency—but a new ruling shows that they're not safe from big oil companies, either.
Last month, a federal court granted Chevron access to nine years of email metadata—which includes names, time stamps, and detailed location data and login info, but not content—belonging to activists, lawyers, and journalists who criticized the company for drilling in Ecuador and leaving behind a trail of toxic sludge and leaky pipelines.
Since 1993, when the litigation began, Chevron has lost multiple appeals and has been ordered to pay plaintiffs from native communities about $19 billion to cover the cost of environmental damage. Chevron alleges that it is the victim of a mass extortion conspiracy, which is why the company is asking Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, which owns Hotmail, to cough up the email data.When Lewis Kaplan, a federal judge in New York, granted the Microsoft subpoena last month, he ruled it didn't violate the First Amendment because Americans weren't among the people targeted.
now judges are cherry picking who 1st amendment applies to, when it's suppose to apply to everyone. i know there is no other way but picking names and verdicts from a hat but this is tantamount to just that there is no justice just us was originally said about Blacks looking for help in the courts and not receiving it like recent cases now seems to apply across the board, unless you are rich.
picking judges is not a science it also is not a sure thing, everybody has something that prevents normality as in perfection, but some that are placed in the public trust seem to be some of the most twisted in history, worse than those they incarcerate.
say for 20 years just for firing a warning shot to stop an abusive attack this all of a sudden "the letter of the law is paramount" and there is no humanity just how the court feels that day
Now Mother Jones has learned that the targeted accounts do include Americans—a revelation that calls the validity of the subpoena into question. The First Amendment protects the right to speak anonymously, and in cases involving Americans, courts have often quashed subpoenas seeking to discover the identities and locations of anonymous internet users.Earlier this year, a different federal judge quashed Chevron's attempts to seize documents from Amazon Watch, one of the company's most vocal critics. That judge said the subpoena was a violation of the group's First Amendment rights. In this case, though, that same protection has not been extended to activists, journalists, and lawyers' email metadata.
why would a judgr grant access to records of those who said bad things about big oil co.? can you see any good coming from that, will we suddenly notice these people are missing or in court fighting bogus charges, hey we've all seen the movies not like the idea is not out there and available especially if you've got the money to do it.
