Joel R. Reidenberg, a Fordham University School of Law professor, has raised the hackles of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court by collecting a lot of the jurist’s personal information via the Internet.
Mr. Reidenberg teaches a course on privacy law. Justice Scalia made comments earlier this year that sounded skeptical about legal privacy protection for all online information. So Mr. Reidenberg asked his class to compile a dossier on Justice Scalia. After some Googling, the Washington Post reported Tuesday, the class came up with with Mr. Scalia’s home address and phone number, the price of his house, some of his favorite foods and movies, his wife’s personal e-mail address, and photos of his grandchildren. (The dossier has not been published, online or elsewhere.)
“The class was pretty shocked by the results. This was one of the teachable points,” said Mr. Reidenberg, in a new post on the legal blog Concurring Opinions.
Justice Scalia seemed shocked as well. “Prof. Reidenberg’s exercise is an example of perfectly legal, abominably poor judgment. Since he was not teaching a course in judgment, I presume he felt no responsibility to display any,” he told the online legal tabloid Above the Law . —Josh Fischman
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