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Immigration judge blasts leak in Obama’s aunt’s asylum case

FAC August 18, 2010

A judge who granted asylum to President Barack Obama’s African aunt ruled she deserved to stay in the United States because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organization, making her a potential target for persecution in her native Kenya. August 18, 2010 By The Associated Press BOSTON — U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro blasted the leak by the unidentified official in his 29-page ruling granting asylum to Zeituni Onyango in May.

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Court says lying about Medal of Honor no crime

FAC August 18, 2010

A federal law making it a crime to lie about receiving the Medal of Honor or other military decorations violates freedom of speech, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. San Francisco Chronicle August 18, 2010 By Bob Egelko SAN FRANCISCO –Although a Southern California water board member convicted of violating the Stolen Valor Act made “deliberate and despicable” claims that he had received the Medal of Honor, the Constitution prohibits the government from prosecuting someone

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Judgment Vindicates Calif. Student Punished for Pro-Life T-Shirt

FAC August 13, 2010

Tiffany Amador won a free speech case in Federal Court after officials barred her from wearing her American Life League pro-life T-shirt, featuring the word “ABORTION,” at McSwain Union Elementary School in Merced, California. Christian Newswire August 13, 2010 By Katie Walker kwalker@all.org WASHINGTON — American Life League celebrated a free speech victory after a federal court entered a judgment on Thursday that a California elementary school and three school officials violated the First, Fourth and

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Mass. curriculum can exclude questioners of Armenian genocide

FAC August 13, 2010

A federal appeals court has ruled that Massachusetts public school guidelines for teaching history can exclude viewpoints that dispute the mass slaying of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in the early part of the 20th century. August 13, 2010 By The Associated Press BOSTON —The Aug. 11 decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the state did not violate free-speech rights in 1999 by excluding sources that questioned the Armenian genocide. Some

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ACLU turns over blogger IPs in Pa. defamation case

FAC August 13, 2010

A civil liberties group has surrendered the Internet protocol addresses from six posts on an online message board to a local western Pennsylvania official who claims the authors posted defamatory information about him. August 13, 2010 By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — The American Civil Liberties Union, who intervened in the case, turned over two IPs on Aug. 11 after an Allegheny County judge last month ruled that Forward Township Supervisor Thomas DeRosa was entitled

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