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Stanford Professor: Citizen’s United “Unjustly Maligned”

FAC November 25, 2010

Stanford law professor Kathleen M. Sullivan examines the Citizens United ruling in the new issue of Harvard Law Review. Prof. Kathleen Sullivan: Citizens United Has Been “Unjustly Maligned” November 22, 2010 12:52 P.M. By Ed Whelan In an article in the new issue of the Harvard Law Review, Stanford law professor Kathleen M. Sullivan—who is often mentioned as a leading “progressive” candidate for a Supreme Court nomination—distances herself from the bashing of the Citizens United

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SF Bay Guardian’s $21M award stands after CA Supreme Court refuses rival’s request to review amount

FAC November 24, 2010

The CA Supreme Court declined to review the $21 million damage award a lower court had ordered the SF Weekly to pay its rival, the SF Bay Guardian, in 2008. The Bay Guardian successfully argued that the Weekly had slashed advertising prices to drive the Bay Guardian out of business.  Reportedly, management of the papers are now trying to negotiate a settlement. Bruce Brugmann, the Publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian is a member

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Wikileaks expected to release 1000s of classified docs Friday

FAC November 24, 2010

Editors and reporters at the New York Times, U.K.’s Guardian and Der Spiegel of Germany are poring over hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents expected to be released as early as Friday, Bloomberg reported today. “The Pentagon warned the U.S. Senate and House Armed Services Committees that the website WikiLeaks.org ‘ntends to release several hundred thousand’ classified U.S. State Department cables as soon as Nov. 26. The documents ‘touch on an enormous range of

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Pultizer Prize-winning reporter describes quest for truth in Las Vegas construction deaths

FAC November 10, 2010

By Donal Brown Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Berzon said that favorable circumstances set the stage for the stories on Las Vegas construction deaths that earned her a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service when she was with the Las Vegas Sun. It is clear, though, that her success in the project derived centrally from her determined questioning: Why were there so many workers dying on the strip? And why were the companies able to

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A&A: Public right to to speak denied at school board meetings

FAC November 2, 2010

Q: I need help defending the  public’s right to speak at open meetings. At school board meetings, board members will not let members of the public comment for the established time of three minutes. School district staff speaks for three minutes and then the public gets three minutes. Often times the chair does not allow the public the chance to speak at all. The chair always interrupts the public speaker. I have audio and visual

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