NY Judge Throws Out Photographers’ Border Search Constitutional Challenge

In September 2010 the National Press Photographers Association joined an important federal lawsuit in a Constitutional challenge of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s laptop search policy at the border. On Friday a U.S. District Judge dismissed th

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On Friday U.S. District Judge Edward Korman dismissed the suit after it sat in his court for nearly two years. By doing so Korman affirms that he believes the government should be able to search and copy people’s laptops, cell phones, and other devices at border checkpoints without reasonable suspicion.