Criminal Defence Lawyers: Press Photographers Association

American Civil Liberties Union Dept: The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against the Department of Homeland Security, as well as U.S. customs and immigration authorities, according to CBC. The American Civil Liberties Union, the New York Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers filed the lawsuit on behalf of the National Press Photographers Association, criminal defence lawyers and the student: Pascal Abidor, a 26-year-old French-American citizen whose laptop computer was confiscated at the Canada-U.S. border and civil rights lawyers cited the case of a Montreal student Tuesday as they sued the U.S. government to try to stop authorities from examining the laptops, cellphones and cameras of international travellers without probable cause. In May, a graduate student in Islamic studies at McGill University in Montreal was detained for several hours as his electronic devices were searched, the suit says. The encounter badly frightened the student, according to the suit. As reported in the news.
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