Law Students Collect Personal Info on Justice Scalia That He Claimed Shouldn't be Protected

[steven johnson]

I've noticed how conservatives are great at arguing 'principles' but thin skinned when those 'principles' are applied to them.

What began as law school class exercise in privacy has led an apparently upset Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to criticize a law professor for giving a lesson in how "what is legal may also be quite irresponsible."

Joel Reidenberg, a Fordham University law school professor, assigned a group project to students in his information privacy law course: Find any publicly available information on the notoriously private Scalia and compile it into a "dossier." The class came up with 15 pages of information on the Justice, including his home phone number, his food preferences, his wife's personal e-mail address and photos of his grandchildren, Reidenberg said.

The dossier hasn't been made public and was intended, Reidenberg says, as an exercise to show students the amount of personal information that can be easily gleaned from the Web.

Reidenberg said he assigns a similar project each year, using himself as the test subject last year. He said he picked Scalia after the Justice said during a speech earlier this year that he did not believe the law should necessarily protect personal, but easily available, information.


Supreme Court Justice Blasts Law Professor for "Irresponsible" Assignment

[Arctic Dave]

1. And I laugh a hardy laugh.

[JDPriestly]

2. Thanks. This was posted earlier by someone, but I think it is

good to keep remembering. We are supposed to have one law applied as equally as possible to all. But men like Scalia see themselves as somehow too important to follow the laws applied to others. It is especially horrible because Scalia gets to decide not only whether laws should be applied to the rest of us but how they should be applied.

And I add on edit a belated welcome to DU.

[Xipe Totec]

3. My personal regards to Tony...

(Puts hand on chin, flicks briskly outward).

:hi: