Marshals Violated Privacy, U.S. Concedes
The Justice Department has conceded that the U.S. Marshals Service violated the federal Privacy Protection Act when a marshal ordered reporters with Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American to erase their recordings of a speech on the Constitution by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
The department also said the reporters and their employers are each entitled to $1,000 in damages and reasonable attorneys’ fees. The reporters had not been told that Scalia did not want to be recorded.
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