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Fired Compton City lawyer loses libel suit against ex-supervisor

donal brown November 16, 2010

A California appeals court ruled that a libel suit brought by a lawyer fired by the City of Compton was properly dismissed on technical grounds since the lawyer failed to amend his complaint as directed by the trial court. -db Metropolitan News-Enterprise November 15, 2010 By Kenneth Ofgang A suit by a lawyer who claims he was wrongly fired by the City of Compton and defamed by his supervisor there was properly dismissed on technical grounds,

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Rensselaer team leads in making flood of government data intelligible

donal brown November 15, 2010

The Obama administration has begun to release raw government data in an unprecedented transparency initiative, but without context, the public cannot make sense of the data. Now a team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has stepped up to make the data intelligible through sorting, combining and presenting the data in visual form. -db The New York Times November 15, 2010 By Steve Lohr In May 2009, the Obama administration started putting raw government data on the

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National Archives challenges CIA on destruction of tapes of brutal interrogations

donal brown November 15, 2010

The National Archives and Records Administration said they plan to investigate whether the CIA’s destruction of tapes showing brutal interrogations of terror suspects constituted improper destruction of federal records. -db NBC News November 10, 2010 By Michael Isikoff The legal inquiries into the CIA’s destruction of videotapes showing the brutal interrogation of terror suspects may not be over after all. A day after the Justice Department announced that a special counsel had concluded his investigation

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Free speech: Teachers sue Florida school district for social media policy

donal brown November 15, 2010

Some Florida teachers are suing their district in state court on the grounds that a proposed Manatee school district policy violates their free speech rights by prohibiting social media postings of negative comments or photos about the district, employees or students from home or work computers. -db Bradenton Herald November 13, 2010 By Richard Dymond MANATEE, Florida — The teachers union in Manatee County filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the constitutionality of a proposed Manatee

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Kansas man wins free speech battle with city over yard sign

donal brown November 15, 2010

A homeowner in Valley Center, Kansas won a judgment of $8000 against the city who sued him for criminal defamation after he posted a yard sign criticizing the city administration. -db The Topeka Capital-Journal November 13, 2010 By Roxana Hegeman WICHITA (AP)— A Valley Center homeowner can again display a yard sign criticizing the city and its administrator without fear. Details surfaced Saturday of the court settlement in a First Amendment case that arose after

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