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Chicago prosecutors say Northwestern journalism students used secret recording devices

donal brown November 18, 2010

Cook County prosecutors are investigating what they say may be illegal use of secret recording devices by students in Northwestern’s Medill Innocence Project who were interviewing witnesses in a murder case. -db Chicago Sun-Times November 17, 2010 By Stefano Esposito Northwestern University journalism students probing whether a convicted murderer should be set free used secret recording devices to interview witnesses — possibly violating state law, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday. “We’re still trying to get

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Federal judge rules newspaper rack restrictions not violate free press rights

donal brown November 18, 2010

A federal judge ruled that when Houston required permits for news racks, specified color and details of construction and restricted the location of the racks, the city had not violated the First Amendment since the ordinance was content-neutral and did not limit specific viewpoints. -db First Amendment Center November 17, 2010 By David L. Hudson Jr. Houston’s news-rack ordinance does not violate the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled recently. The city passed its ordinance

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Righthaven plans to stop suing for excerpts from news articles

donal brown November 18, 2010

Righthaven, the company of lawyers that sues blogs and websites for posting articles from client newspapers, has announced it would no longer sue when the posting constitutes an excerpt. -db Wired November 18, 2010 By David Kravets Copyright troll Righthaven this week promised to narrow its lawsuit campaign in the face of a courtroom defeat, when a judge ruled that a real estate website made “fair use” of a newspaper article from the Las Vegas-Review

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Secretary of State says U.S. opposed to restricting speech defaming religion

donal brown November 18, 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the Obama administration opposed restricting free speech by banning defamation of religion but said the U.S. condemns hateful speech. -db First Amendment Center November 18, 2010 By Matthew Lee WASHINGTON. D.C. (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday that Islamic nations and others were restricting free speech by attempting to ban statements defaming religion. She declared the Obama administration’s opposition. Presenting the State Department’s annual

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Federal judge orders CIA to produce records of government experiments on soldiers 1950-1975

donal brown November 18, 2010

Three veteran groups and six individual veterans won a judgment in federal court ordering the CIA to produce records about human experiments conducted on soldiers from 1950 to 1975. -db Courthouse News Service November 17, 2010 By Annie Youderian (CN) – A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered the CIA to produce specific records and testimony about the human experiments the government allegedly conducted on thousands of soldiers from 1950 through 1975. Three veterans

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