Judge Blocks Maine Ebola Quarantine, Feds Announce Lots of Climate Change Plans, Google Fined Over Boobs: P.M. Links

  • I don't think we're going to have a hard time keeping track of where that nurse is.A judge has ruled that Maine
    health officials
    cannot quarantine nurse Kaci Hickox
    over fears she may have
    Ebola because she has no symptoms. He ruled that the state can
    continue to monitor her, and she must coordinate any travel with
    state officials.
  • Eric Frein, the man accused of ambushing Pennsylvania state
    troopers (killing one) and fleeing into the wilderness for 48 days
    before getting caught last night, has formally been
    charged with murder
    .
  • Friday’s news dump from the Obama administration includes
    thousands of pages describing what various federal agencies will be
    doing to
    combat climate change
    . No doubt these potentially costly
    proposals will get lots of attention and analysis the weekend
    before midterm elections and amid all this Ebola-mania. (Yes, that
    was sarcasm.)
  • A judge in Virginia ruled that criminal defendants can be
    forced to cooperate with police if they use
    fingerprint locking
    for their smart phones and open them up,
    because fingerprints are more like keys than like passcodes.
  • The family of a man who
    died in Rikers Island prison
    , nearly cooked to death after
    being left in an extremely overheated prison cell, have been
    awarded $2.25 million from New York City in a settlement.
  • Google has been fined $2,250 for a street view image in Canada
    that
    showed a woman’s cleavage
    .

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