The New McCarthyism: How The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Got Automated License Plate Readers And The Mosaic Theory All Wrong

By: Dan Noffsinger Abstract Many scholars have explored the intersection of 21st-century technologies with Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Some have approached this as digital-age versions of papers, effects, and the curtilage, while others have addressed the third-party Miller doctrine. One theory gaining support, based partly on the concurring Supreme Court opinions of United States v. Jones,…

Digital Greenbacks: A Sequenced ‘Treasury Direct’ And ‘Fed Wallet’ Plan For The Democratic Digital Dollar

By: Robert Hockett[*] Abstract I propose means of immediately converting the Department of Treasury’s existing Treasury Direct system of freely available transaction accounts into a publicly administered digital savings and payments platform. A platform of this type is an essential public utility in any commercial society such as our own. It is additionally growth-promoting inasmuch…