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Texas cities can’t challenge state’s open-meetings law

FAC July 29, 2010

Four Texas cities cannot join more than a dozen elected officials in a lawsuit aimed at overturning the Texas Open Meetings Act, a federal judge ruled yesterday. July 29, 2010 By The Associated Press PECOS, Texas —U.S. District Judge Robert Junell said the cities of Alpine, Pflugerville, Rockport and Wichita Falls cannot sue Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and the state over the act because the issue involved revolves around individual rights. The open-meetings law

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Judge gives online commenters First Amendment protection

FAC July 29, 2010

A judge’s ruling in a pre-trial motion involving a Gaston County murder case affirms that First Amendment protection extends to those who make anonymous comments about stories on news websites. The Star July 29, 2010 By Kevin Ellis Attorneys for Michael Mead had sought to force The Gaston Gazette to reveal information that could have been used to help reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter on the news organization’s website. But Superior Court Judge

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Video game group spent $1.1M lobbying in 2Q

FAC July 29, 2010

The Entertainment Software Association, a trade group for video game companies, spent $1.1 million during the second quarter to lobby on the regulation of video game content, First Amendment protection, parental control technology and other issues, according to a recent disclosure report. July 29, 2010 By The Associated Press WASHINGTON —This is down 5 percent from the $1.2 million spent in the same quarter a year earlier and in the first quarter of this year.

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Court rules student counselors must ‘affirm’ gay clients

FAC July 29, 2010

On Tuesday, a federal judge upheld the right of a counseling program at Eastern Michigan University to kick out a master’s student who declined to counsel gay clients in an affirming way — as required by the university program and counseling associations. USA TODAY July 29, 2010 By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed A month ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a dispute involving the right of public universities to enforce anti-bias rules as

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USA outlaws ‘libel tourism’ in the UK courts

FAC July 29, 2010

United States lawmakers have passed legislation countering the threat to freedom of speech posed by ‘libel tourists’ who use the UK’s tough libel laws to take action over articles primarily published in the US. Press Gazette July 29, 2010 By Dominic Ponsford The SPEECH Act – Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage Act – has been approved by the House of Representatives and will now be signed into law by President

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