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Does the 2nd Amendment apply to outside the home? The US Supreme Court is currently now considering 2nd amendment issues.

The right to bear arms as defined in the Second Amendment does not apply to the states, so Massachusetts can regulate who can have firearms and how those weapons are to be stored, the state's high court ruled Wednesday.

From the 5th Amendment to the Bill of Rights "...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."

...in an extraordinarily rare move, prosecutors in Denver are seeking a court order forcing Fricosu to unlock the computer so that they can obtain files they would use to try to convict her and her ex-husband.

In a somewhat surprising 9th Circuit ruling (en banc, or in front of the entire set of judges), the court ruled that the 4th Amendment does apply at the border, that agents do need to recognize there's an expectation of privacy, and cannot do a search without reason.

Young couples have long signaled their devotion to each other by various means — the gift of a letterman jacket, or an exchange of class rings or ID bracelets. Best friends share locker combinations. The digital era has given rise to a more intimate custom. It has become fashionable for young people to express their affection for each other by sharing their passwords. Boyfriends and girlfriends sometimes even create identical passwords, and let each other read their private e-mails and texts.

In a case going back to 2010, a Colorado judge has ruled that a woman named as a defendant in a criminal case can be forced to decrypt the contents of her laptop and files. Answering the question of 'what about her fifth amendment right to non-self-incrimination, the judge ruled the fifth amendment does not apply in this case, even though the contents of the protected files could be used to prosecute and convict her.

TNA world champion Jeff Hardy plans to plead guilty to drug charges in court next month, according to a report by the Fayetteville Observer, citing the Moore County (N.C.) district attorney.

This is a blatant attack by the CA government against the First Amendment as it pertains to video games. Or does the First Amendment not apply to the video game medium? G4tv.coms part 1 and part 2 coverage of this developing Supreme Court case are worth looking at also for more background on the issue.
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/707834/Video-Games-On-Trial-Part-One--...
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/707915/Video-Games-On-Trial-Part-Two--...

The enthusiasm for such systems extends well beyond the nation's prisons. High-resolution, low-cost cameras are proliferating, found in products like smartphones and laptop computers. The cost of storing images is dropping, and new software algorithms for mining, matching and scrutinizing the flood of visual data are progressing swiftly.